On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public health ...

At least nine people have died in a fresh outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa's health agency has announced. This exceeds the eight other deaths reported by the World Health ...

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 ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The WHO said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had ...

Kenya has heightened its preparedness for a potential Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak following the confirmation of a case in Tanzania's Kagera region on Sunday, January 20. The Ministry of ...

An effort to curb Tanzania’s second outbreak of Marburg virus disease in almost two years includes enhanced case detection, treatment centres, and a mobile laboratory in the northwestern Kagera region ...

An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The head of the World ...

At least nine people in Ethiopia have been infected with Marburg virus, a deadly illness similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization said. File Photo by Tamas Soki/EPA At least nine people in ...

MONDAY, Nov. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — At least nine people in southern Ethiopia have been infected with Marburg virus, a deadly illness similar to Ebola. This marks the country’s first known ...