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 ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates. Eight people have been killed in a suspected ...

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

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one strain of Ebola, we do not have an approved vaccine or ...

The United Republic of Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region, located in the northwest of the country.

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...

The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), implementing ...

KIGALI, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 856 people have been vaccinated against the Marburg virus disease in Rwanda, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana announced Thursday. The government has utilized ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...