KAGERA Regional Commissioner Fatma Mwasa has urged journalists to serve as effective ambassadors in educating the public ...

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

THE government has demanded the Chief Medical Officer to the government to work round the clock to stem disease outbreaks ...

Tanzania has confirmed a new case of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region, following 25 negative tests.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country.One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second ...

Uganda is on high alert following a suspected Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in neighboring Tanzania that has left eight people dead, a health official said here Wednesday. Henry Kyobe Bosa ...

IANS Dar es Salaam, Jan 15 (IANS) Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania's northwestern region of Kagera, the World Health Organization (WHO) has ...

The virus, a highly fatal hemorrhagic fever with up to 88% mortality rate, belongs to the same family According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of ...

DAR ES SALAAM - Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania's northwestern region of Kagera, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

NAIROBI - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of the ...