Dr. Petr Chlanda, virologist and research group leader at the Heidelberg Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University, has been awarded more than 720,000 euros in funding from the European Union for his ...

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

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 ...

A suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in Tanzania’s Kagera region has reportedly infected nine people and claimed eight lives, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The viral hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate as high as 88per cent, and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats which are ...

GENEVA: Cautioning about the "high risk" of deadly Marburg Virus Disease’s (MVD) further spread in Tanzania, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said the suspected virus outbreak had ...

There have been nine suspected cases and eight deaths in a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania. WHO has classified the risk for regional spread to be high based on the location of the ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has claimed at least eight lives. The number one health body in the world also reported nine ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces ...

Nairobi — Kenya is on high alert after the confirmation of 8 Marburg virus-related deaths in Kagera region of Tanzania. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alerts have been issued ...

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 ...