WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

President of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on 20 January, in the presence of the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the country’s ...

“President Samia Suluhu Hassan has graciously agreed to host the summit to deliberate on the situation in Eastern DRC.” Rebels have already seized the provincial capital, Goma, and reports ...

THE government has confirmed that one person has died in an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region ... Earlier this week, President Samia Suluhu Hassan reassured Tanzanians and the ...

KAGERA: THE newly appointed Chief Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe and her team arrived in Kagera Region on Thursday to make close follow-up on the reported Marburg Virus Disease ... President Samia ...

Instead, Ms Hassan said authorities had “identified one patient (who) has been infected with Marburg virus”. “The cause of the earlier reported deaths in the community has not been confirmed ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...

Tanzania announced a new case of Marburg virus disease on Monday in the Kagera region, in the northwest of the country. The announcement was made by President Samia Suluhu Hassan at a press conference ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma ... Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said at a press conference on ... which had infected 66 people and killed 15, was over. The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and then through ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg ... virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment. President Samia Suluhu Hassan ...