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 ...

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This exceeds the eight suspected deaths reported by the World Health ...

Marburg Virus Disease is a highly contagious viral ... treatment centers to prevent further transmission. The WHO explained that zoonotic reservoirs, such as fruit bats, remain endemic to the ...

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

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... to get on a plane and fly anywhere in the world," he explained. The incubation period of a virus is the time between ...

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 ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...

KAGERA Regional Commissioner Fatma Mwasa has urged journalists to serve as effective ambassadors in educating the public ...

Fatma Mwassa has urged the media to educate the public on the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) and avoid misbeliefs that ...

Marburg virus disease is classified as highly virulent and can lead to severe haemorrhagic fever. It is explained that the early symptoms include a sudden onset of high fever, severe headaches ...