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

The laboratory, which will study some of the deadliest viruses, has prompted concerns over a repeat of the coronavirus ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variants. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type. Now, trials for another strain are ...

A recent funding freeze from USAID has left South Africa's vital HIV and TB treatment programmes in jeopardy. As experts warn ...

A recent funding freeze from USAID has left South Africa's vital HIV and TB treatment programmes in jeopardy. As experts warn ...

Early reports circulated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicated that eight people had died in the suspected outbreak, that it was unmistakably the Marburg virus disease ... the situation ...

NCDC explained that the moderate risk classification ... According to the NCDC, the Ebola virus is in the same class as the Marburg virus and both are classified as Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers ...

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.

The government of Mozambique has activated surveillance measures after the confirmation of cases of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania. The disease causes haemorrhagic fever and belongs to the same ...

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following the confirmation of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region.

Symptoms of Marburg virus disease are similar to those of other viral haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola disease, and of infectious diseases like malaria or typhoid. Diagnosis can be difficult, ...