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

WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

The Marburg virus is often transmitted by fruit bats, which are considered the natural reservoir for the virus. According to the WHO, Rousettus aegyptiacus, a fruit bat of the Pteropodidae family ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), the primary source of the Marburg virus is the fruit bats (that were responsible for the SARS-CoV2 virus outbreak) of the Pteropodidae family ...

On average, the fatality rate is about 50%. Marburg virus is spread by certain fruit bats to humans and other primates. People usually contract the disease after spending time in caves where the ...

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 ...

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania ... which is transmitted to people from fruit bats which are endemic to that part of East Africa.

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — 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 up ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...

Avoid contact with fruit bats and their habitats Practice strict hygiene, including frequent handwashing Avoid close contact with infected individuals or their bodily fluids The Marburg virus ...