WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

There have been 15 outbreaks of Marburg between 1967 and 2022. Some involved just one or two cases, while the largest was the 2004 to 2005 outbreak in Angola, when 252 people were infected.

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake Zone Regions namely Mwanza, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Kagera, Simiyu and Mara have ...

A cholera outbreak in Angola has killed at least 108 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said Tuesday, ...

The first outbreak of Marburg virus was reported in Tanzania ... In 2005, this virus killed 300 people in Angola. However, for the rest of the world, only two people have died from the virus ...

The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany ...

2 Most followed trajectories similar to a 2005 event in Angola in ... But though Marburg virus infection had never previously been diagnosed in Rwanda, the 2024 outbreak was not the country ...

Rwanda is studying the survivors of its recent Marburg outbreak to better understand how they survived. Rwanda swiftly ...

WHO said that Marburg virus disease is highly ... WHO added that in the African region, previous outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The first Marburg outbreak was reported in Tanzania in March 2023 in the Kagera region. Previous outbreaks of the disease have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...