The United Republic of Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region, located in the northwest of the country.

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

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

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The world’s first confirmed outbreak of a filovirus, a family that includes both Marburg and Ebola ... 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or contaminated surfaces ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

Marburg virus, which is from the same family as the ... Since 2021, outbreaks in West Africa have occurred for the first time in Guinea in 2021, Ghana in 2022 and in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania ...

An outbreak of Marburg virus disease has been confirmed in Tanzania ... Ghana, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. A health worker during the Marburg vaccination activity ...