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 ...

Officials have ruled out Ebola or Marburg virus, but say those infected are presenting symptoms of a ‘hemorrhagic fever’ ...

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World ...

The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit ... The last outbreak before the current one in Tanzania was in Rwanda in September 2024.

Trump issued executive orders that withdrew the US from WHO and halted USAID funding, which also keeps people uninformed of ...

The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg ... can emerge in the later stages before - in some cases - death. Tanzania experienced its first Marburg outbreak in March 2023 in the Bukoba ...

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...

Kenya has confirmed 41 cases of monkey pox (mpox) across 12 counties, with one fatality reported since the outbreak began in ...

The Ministry of Health has heightened disease surveillance and border screening as Kenya monitors the Mpox outbreak and ...