Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision ...

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in Kagera region, in which a total of nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...

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 ...

In the East African country of Rwanda, however, a courageous, unified, and successful response to the global threat posed by a major outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) offers reason for hope ...

Arusha: 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 to 88per ...

Marburg virus causes Marburg haemorrhagic fever in humans. Symptoms of the disease include fever ... Picture: Google Maps WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visiting Dodoma, pledged the ...

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 ...