Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested positive for the highly contagious Marburg disease, a virus with a ...

The WHO considers the regional risk from Marburg virus disease to be high because Kagera is a transport hub. Officials are concerned that it could spread to nearby countries, including Rwanda ...

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

Marburg exists in bats, but does not seem to harm them with outbreaks seeming to occur when the virus is passed from a bat to a human before it is then able to spread through the human population.

A new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus has gripped Tanzania ... also deployed health experts to tackle the virus and start efforts to contain spread. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr ...

Contact persons are under follow-up in the affected districts to prevent further spread. Marburg virus infection spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood ...

"The reporting of suspected Marburg virus disease cases from two districts suggests geographic spread. "The delayed detection and isolation of cases, coupled with ongoing contact tracing ...

A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in the Kagera region of Tanzania has been linked to nine suspected cases and eight deaths, ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed ... Health workers treat a woman with a suspected case of Marburg (Archive image: Getty) It can be spread via infected people via direct ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus ... is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats. The virus can spread between people ...

Neighbouring countries Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and Congo could potentially face crossborder spread. At least 66 people were infected and 15 died from the Marburg virus disease in Rwanda last year ...