with both countries working to monitor and contain the virus. Newsweek contacted the WHO by email on Monday, requesting further information about the outbreak. The WHO had initially reported on ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates. Eight people have been killed in a suspected ...

The source of the outbreak is still unknown and additional cases are expected, health officials said. View on euronews ...

Fatality estimates vary between outbreaks from 24% to 88% of people who've caught the disease. On average, the fatality rate is about 50%. Marburg virus is spread by certain fruit bats to humans ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

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

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

On January 14, The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus had killed eight people in the Kagera region. The Kagera region borders Rwanda, which also ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...