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

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus ... the WHO would work with Tanzania to "bring the outbreak under control as soon as possible." The organization is ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its ... to have been "identified and under follow-up in both districts." ...

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

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg ... the virus to others, underscoring the disease’s relatively low transmissibility under ...

Contact persons are under follow-up in the affected districts to prevent further spread. Marburg virus infection spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood ...

There have been nine suspected cases and eight deaths in a suspected Marburg virus outbreak ... who may have been exposed to the virus and are under follow-up. WHO said the Kagera region of ...

16 (UPI) --Tanzania pushed back against a report from the World Health Organization warning of a new Marburg virus outbreak in ... relations with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, have ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has ... as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

East Africa continues to grapple with the growing threat of deadly viruses, with the Marburg virus now posing a significant ... healthcare worker strikes and under-resourced primary health facilities.

Marburg Virus: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO director ...