Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested ...

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 ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

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 ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country ... people had been killed by the disease in a remote part of Tanzania. The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

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

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — 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 ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — 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 ...

The Foreign Office has issued a warning for Brits planning a winter sun getaway in Tanzania. Certain regions of the equatorial holiday spot are currently experiencing a deadly outbreak of Marburg ...

The World Health Organization said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit ...

In the face of the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, frontline health workers and local communities have received vital support from the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

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