With the fatality rate of 8% it is the same virus family as Ebola. The main carrier is from fruit bats which spreads to ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west ...

Following a World Health Organization (WHO) alert 2 days ago about a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania, the ...

Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health ...

The WHO reported nine suspected cases of Marburg virus, resulting in eight deaths across two districts in Tanzania. It ...

Tanzania has denied WHO's report on a suspected Marburg virus outbreak, confirming all cases in Kagera tested negative ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily ...

Marburg virus is a close cousin of Ebola, causing similar symptoms and spreading in the same way. It can cause death in up to ...

In March 2023, Tanzania reported its first Marburg virus outbreak, which also occurred in Kagera region. The outbreak was ...

Tanzania’s Ministry of Health has deployed a team of experts to the Kagera region to collect specimens and conduct laboratory ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight ...

Nine cases of the deadly disease have been reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania so far. But officials expect that number ...