BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...

A travel medicine expert is cautioning against overreaction following the Tanzania government's confirmation of an outbreak of the highly virulent Marburg virus in the northwestern Kagera region.

I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one ...

Trump issued executive orders that withdrew the US from WHO and halted USAID funding, which also keeps people uninformed of ...

The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg ... can emerge in the later stages before - in some cases - death. Tanzania experienced its first Marburg outbreak in March 2023 in the Bukoba ...

An Ebola outbreak has been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Experts share concerns about the highly fatal and contagious hemorrhagic fever.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...

In the face of the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, frontline health workers and local ...

The Ministry of Health has heightened disease surveillance and border screening as Kenya monitors the Mpox outbreak and ...