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: 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 ...

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

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." ...

Tanzania has confirmed a new case of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region, following 25 negative tests. Dozens of individuals remain under observation as the government works to ...

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 ...

21 (UPI) --Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus after its health ministry ... to normalize relations with Israel under the 2020 Abraham Accords, have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...