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

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

When the first cases emerged, health minister Sabin Nsanzimana was at the UN General Assembly in New York. "I saw a message ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...

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

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus ... The emergence of this case in a region that experienced Tanzania's first-ever Marburg outbreak in March ...

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

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been ... with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Belgrade in ...

Marburg virus, first recognized in ... but some have occurred elsewhere. The first recorded cases of the disease affected researchers in Europe who had imported green monkeys from Uganda.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and ... Rwandan officials reported a total of 15 deaths and 66 cases in the outbreak first declared on Sept. 27, with the majority of those ...

The Marburg virus was first identified in 1967 during simultaneous ... Prompt isolation of suspected cases, supportive medical care, and stringent infection control measures are critical to ...