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 ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

The Mozambican health authorities in the northern province of Cabo Delgado have declared a high alert following an outbreak of Marburg virus in neighbouring Tanzania. The virus was diagnosed in the ...

SEVEN people have tested positive and two have died from a highly contagious strain of Ebola in Uganda, as scientists race to ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (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 ...

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 ...