Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

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 ...

Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment, originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids ...

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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 ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its high fatality rate. Now the World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating a ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a Level 3 travel advisory for Rwanda due to an outbreak of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus disease, or MVD, is a serious, often fatal ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...

Suspected Outbreak of Marburg Virus Kills Eight in Tanzania, WHO Says NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (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 ...