Tanzania has announced its first-ever cases of Marburg virus disease, a deadly infection that has a fatality rate of around 50 percent. The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement that ...

This image, captured in 1981, shows strands of the Marburg virus magnified about 100,000X under an electron microscope. Image: CDC / Dr. Erskine Palmer, Russell Regnery, Ph.D. At least eight people ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed in Tanzania, a week after authorities denied there was an outbreak. The deadly illness similar to Ebola is highly infectious, and can kill up to ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO director-general Tedros ...

The government, through the Ministry of Health, has outlined measures to curb the spread of the Marburg virus after the cases ...

FILE - A medical worker carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, ...

DAR ES SALAAM, June 2 (Reuters) - Tanzania has declared the end of its first-ever outbreak of Marburg, a deadly Ebola-like virus with a fatality rate of up to 88%, the World Health Organisation (WHO) ...

Tanzania's health Minister Ummy Mwalimu has confirmed a mysterious disease that has killed five people to be the Marburg virus. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed that this disease ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors Thursday to be aware of two growing outbreaks of Marburg virus disease in Africa, and will begin reaching out to some arriving travelers ...

The ALIMA CUBE allows isolation of patients with highly transmissible infection while allowing healthcare workers to closely observe them in a structure which can get put up quickly. (WHO) On February ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 22 (Reuters) - Tanzania has confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg, a high-fatality viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, the World Health ...

The outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) spreading since it was first confirmed on February 12 in the northeastern rural province of Kié-Ntem of the West African country of Equatorial Guinea. It ...