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

with both countries working to monitor and contain the virus. Newsweek contacted the WHO by email on Monday, requesting further information about the outbreak. The WHO had initially reported on ...

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

On January 14, The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus had killed eight people in the Kagera region. But hours later, Tanzanian health officials disputed ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human primates. Eight people have been killed in a suspected ...

An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania, Africa's health agency said Thursday, up from eight ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

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The WHO had initially reported on January 14 that Marburg had claimed the lives of eight people in Tanzania's Kagera ... confirmed the presence of the virus, which is similar to Ebola, and is ...