Tanzania on Friday declared the end of the Marburg Virus Disease outbreak which was confirmed just over two months ago in the north-western Kagera region. It was the country’s first outbreak of ...

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 ...

the emergency response can be rapidly accelerated so that we can save lives and stop the virus as soon as possible,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. “Marburg is highly ...

As has been emphasized by the WHO, the 1967 Marburg Virus outbreak, “Was associated with laboratory ... [+] work using African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) imported from Uganda.” ...

Samples were sent to the Institut Pasteur in Senegal for confirmation, which has just confirmed ... there is an outbreak. Treatment is solely supportive care for Marburg virus.

Countries of Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea reports cases and fatalities from the deadly Marburg Virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the possible impacts of the outbreak on ...

Two outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola which causes a severe and often fatal disease in humans, have been confirmed in Africa in recent months. It has sparked concern among ...

The outbreak ... confirmed cases reported. Among the reported cases, many were closely linked either through social gatherings and networks, or geographically. Marburg is in the same family as the ...

Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first nine deaths from the Marburg virus ... Since then, outbreaks have been reported in Kenya, South, Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Only one person in Europe ...

Scientists say a mutated form of mpox, detected in a mining town in Congo, might spread more easily among people than ...

Although cases have fallen significantly since the global mpox outbreak in 2022, the virus still continues to mutate.

[Reuters] Tanzania has declared the end of a deadly outbreak of the Marburg virus, more than two months after it was first confirmed, the World Health Organization said. Nine cases - eight ...