An outbreak of an Ebola-like virus has been detected in the East African country of Tanzania. So far, only one person has ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit ... with health care workers handling the initial patients among the hardest hit. Jimmy Whitworth, emeritus professor of ...

Suspected Outbreak of Marburg Virus Kills Eight in Tanzania ... muscle weakness and finally external bleeding. Samples from two patients were awaiting testing at Tanzania's national laboratory ...

"Fortunately, the remaining suspected patients tested negative for other illnesses. This confirmed that the Marburg virus ...