The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

An outbreak of an Ebola-like virus has been detected in the East African country of Tanzania. So far, only one person has tested positive for Marbug virus, said officials ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed in Tanzania, a week after authorities denied there was an outbreak. The deadly illness similar to Ebola is highly infectious, and can kill up to ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment, originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region of northwestern Tanzania, with nine people reportedly infected, of whom eight have ...

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

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively supporting the response to an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania's Kagera region, w ...