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Once a person becomes infected, they can transmit the virus to others via their own bodily fluids. It can also infect non-human primates like apes and monkeys. In fact, the Marburg virus is named ...

Fatality estimates vary between outbreaks from 24% to 88% of people who've caught the ... Unlike more contagious diseases like COVID-19, Marburg virus transmission requires direct contact with ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the ...

Additionally, 25 people with suspected infections ... the source of the infection,” Hassan said. Marburg, like Ebola, is an RNA virus that belongs to the family of filoviruses.

WHO said it received reports on Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 of nine people ... diseases like Marburg that cannot be tested in traditional ways. Thousands of doses of investigational Marburg virus vaccine ...

"We do not recommend travel or trade restrictions with Tanzania at this time." Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus has been detected in northern ... can die depending on the strain and infection management. How does it spread? The virus is transmitted to people from fruit ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of the disease was ...