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

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed in Tanzania, a week after authorities denied there was an outbreak.

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

THE government has confirmed that one person has died in an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be ...

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus. File Photo by World Health Organization ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... of those affected healthcare workers who handled the first patients. An outbreak in 2023 of Marburg in Kagera, which shares ...

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