Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested positive for the highly contagious Marburg disease, a virus with a ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

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.

ARUSHA, Tanzania -- Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...

East Africa continues to grapple with the growing threat of deadly viruses, with the Marburg virus now posing a significant risk to the region. Recently, Tanzania reported a suspected outbreak of ...

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