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

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 fatal in up to 88% of cases without ...

which primarily affected healthcare workers treating the first patients. The new case in Tanzania highlights the ongoing risk posed by Marburg in the region, with both countries working to monitor and ...

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

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its ... Samples have been taken from two patients and tested by the National ...

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 ...

"Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg virus," she said at a press conference ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease ... eye disease because it damages the patient’s blood vessels, causing them ...

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 ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

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