Nine cases of the deadly disease have been reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania so far. But officials expect that number to rise.

Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania has caused worry as symptoms, death rate, and treatment details are out.

A Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has caused eight deaths and nine suspected cases. Symptoms include severe fever, headache, fatigue, and bleeding. With up to an 88% fatality rate, the virus spreads from fruit bats to humans.

Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the northwest were believed to have died from it.

Marburg virus disease, caused by a virus from the same family as Ebola, has a fatality rate of up to 88% without treatment.

Eight people have died in what is believed to be a Marburg outbreak in Tazania, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The suspected outbreak is in the Kagera region of the United Republic of Tanzania, where nine people are believed to have been infected, with eight dying.

Tanzania’s Ministry of Health has deployed a team of experts to the Kagera region to collect specimens and conduct laboratory tests following reports of a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus

Tanzania has pushed back against a report from the World Health Organization warning of a new Marburg virus outbreak in the country.