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

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 ...

But in a statement, Tanzania's Health Minister Jenista Mhagama said after samples were analysed, all suspected cases were found negative for Marburg ... the virus, although trials are under ...

A Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has ... but a range of vaccines and drug therapies are under development. The virus bears similarities to Ebola. Both the illnesses are rare but can cause ...

Marburg virus outbreaks have a fatality rate of between 24% and 88%. The worst recorded outbreak was in Angola in 2004-2005, where the above picture was taken. (Image Credits: Reuters) Marburg ...

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 ...

Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern ... all of whom have tested negative and are currently under close follow-up, the president said.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East ... to bringing the outbreak under control".

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

Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus ... a vaccine for the virus, although trials are under way.