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

"We were able to deploy two specific treatments based on understanding the virus's genetic makeup," he said. "This scientific approach helped us achieve the lowest case fatality rate ever recorded for ...

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

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 ...

The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), implementing quarantine measures and source tracing to curb the spread of the disease, said ...

An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania ... said "there have been 10 cases that have been notified, of which nine have already died". Ngashi Ngongo, Africa CDC's ...

This is not Tanzania’s first encounter with the Marburg virus. The country reported its first outbreak in March 2023, also in the Kagera region. That outbreak resulted in nine cases, including ...

In the first of the two outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are underway for both ...

A travel medicine expert is cautioning against overreaction following the Tanzania government's confirmation of an outbreak of the highly virulent Marburg virus in the northwestern Kagera region.

Following this, the laboratories and investigative teams confirmed the suspected case as Marburg virus. The President of Tanzania, Her Excellency Samia Suluhu Hassan announced in a statement to ...

which had warned that "more cases" were likely to be identified. Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly ...