This follows reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating that eight people have died in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region. The government trusts that once ...

KAGERA: THE newly appointed Chief Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe and her team arrived in Kagera Region on Thursday to make close follow-up on the reported Marburg Virus Disease after the country ...

Speaking at a joint news conference with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Hassan said that laboratory tests conducted at the Kabaile mobile laboratory in ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed a positive case in the northwestern Kagera region during a press conference alongside Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organisation (WHO ...

Image via Wiki Commons. Tanzania has confirmed a new case of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region, following 25 negative tests. Dozens of individuals remain under observation as ...

FILE - A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in ...

Tanzania and the World Health Organisation confirmed on Monday the outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region. The announcement was made by President of the Republic of ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

The WHO has sent its expert teams to the north-eastern Kagera region, in the districts Biharamulo and Muleba, where all of the reported cases have so far been recorded. However, medics are warning the ...

The Tanzanian government has denied reports by the World Health Organsation (WHO) of a suspected new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwestern Kagera region, insisting that all ...

This is after the World Health Organisation put Kenya and five other countries on high alert over Marburg disease. The report claimed the death of eight people in the Kagera region, in Tanzania.