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

"Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg virus," she said at a press conference ...

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

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

Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories ... From day five of the disease, patients can begin to haemmorhage, including fresh blood in vomit and faeces, and bleeding from the ...

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

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 ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the ...

Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... 27, with the majority of those affected health care workers who handled the first patients.

The patients' contacts ... infected 66 people and killed 15 before it was declared over on December 20. Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other ...

A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients. Led by Rwanda ...