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 ...

In 2023, another Marburg outbreak in Tanzania’s Kagera region – which borders Rwanda – lasted nearly two months, with nine cases and six deaths. “Zoonotic reservoirs, such as fruit bats ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - 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 ...

Marburg Virus Outbreak: Tanzania Announces Spread of Deadly Disease. Published Mar 23, 2023 at 12:43 PM EDT Updated Mar 23, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT. By .

Tanzania reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure. Testing by the east African country ...

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.

Tanzania's Ministry of Health has confirmed five people died in a first-ever Marburg virus outbreak near the border with Uganda. The virus causes a severe hemorrhagic fever and is deadlier than ...