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

Tanzania ’s president has confirmed the outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like ...

“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one ... Marburg virus, like Ebola, transmits to people from fruit bats and ...

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.

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

Tanzania's president announced a confirmed Marburg virus case in the northern region, a disease fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment. WHO initially reported a suspected outbreak, which ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 16 (Reuters ... and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats endemic to parts of East Africa.

“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one ... family as the virus that causes Ebola virus disease.