Tanzania's health Minister Ummy Mwalimu has confirmed a mysterious disease that has killed five people to be the Marburg virus. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed that this disease ...

BERLIN, March 13 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, saying on Thursday that close collaboration had ...

Alupe sub-county referral hospital in Busia county. The facility was established in 1947 and now is being used as Covid 19 isolation center. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Kenya has intensified its ...

Johannesburg — After the world was caught largely unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists warned that lessons must be learned. Now, two more viral outbreaks are giving health officials ...

The UK Government has issued warnings about an untreatable Ebola-like virus — which kills up to nine in 10 people it infects — that is currently spreading in Africa. Marburg, one of the deadliest ...

Marburg virus disease is a severe, often fatal, infection passed from fruit bats to people. In a September 2024 Marburg virus disease outbreak in two Rwandan hospitals, mortality rates may have been ...

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that ...

THE Ministry of Health has said it has prepared five strategies that will help ensure that mental health challenges caused by ...

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sabin Vaccine Institute has launched a multi-site Phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S. for its Marburg vaccine candidate, administering doses to the ...

Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, just days after the country declared an outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no ...