Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the ...

Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment, originates in fruit ...

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

THE government has confirmed that one person has died in an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region, with ...

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On January 14, The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus had killed eight people in the Kagera region. The Kagera region borders Rwanda, which also ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister ...

Officials previously questioned whether the deadly disease was indeed present in the African country, which had seen 8 suspected Marburg deaths.

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...