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 ...

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

Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola ... But we had made it to January 2025 without a single case of either disease in the United States. One of the reasons we were successful ...

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 ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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