The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in ...

“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 ...

Dar es Salaam — 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 ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, ... Subsequent laboratory tests conducted at Kagera's Kabaile Mobile Laboratory and confirmed in Dar es Salaam ...

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed the country's second outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in two years. Speaking at a joint news conference with ...

Speaking about the virus Hassan said: “Laboratory tests conducted in the Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and subsequently confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one patient as being infected ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bedsheets.

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 outbreak of the disease was ...

This is the second Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania. In March 2023, the country recorded nine cases, including six deaths, from the disease.. “We have demonstrated in the past our ...

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 ...