On average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects, according to the WHO. In March 2023, Tanzania's Bukoba ...

Health officials in Tanzania announced Tuesday that they had confirmed the country’s first-ever Marburg outbreak, involving at least eight people so far, five of whom have died. One of the ...

Five people are dead following eight confirmed cases of the first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania, health officials are reporting. Marburg is a high-death viral hemorrhagic fever ...

The last Marburg outbreak in Tanzania came in March 2023 when six people died from the virus in the Bukoba district. "[We] would like to assure the international organizations, including WHO, 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 ...

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) said on Friday.

The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.Why It Matters. Without treatment ...

Tanzania suffered its first Marburg outbreak in 2023, recording nine cases, including six deaths, in the same area. In the statement, the minister said Tanzania had "strengthened disease ...

A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has been linked to nine cases and eight deaths, according to WHO. If confirmed, it would be the second Marburg virus outbreak in the country since 2023.

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and vaccines to combat the Marburg virus. As of Sept. 30, 2024, the country ...