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

The virus has already infected ten people since Tanzania officially announced the outbreak last week. Of these infections ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

NINE people have died in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned.Marburg, one of ...

The US withdrawal from the WHO threatens core health programmes in Africa. It will weaken the ability of African countries to ...

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following ...

In January 2025, Uganda ruled out imposing new lockdown measures despite global health concerns. It stressed its confidence in its health system. The TikTok video claiming to show a recent Marburg ...

Ugandan authorities have begun a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in ...

Health authorities say they've identified at least 44 contacts of the deceased, including 30 hospital staff and patients.

The World Health Organization said in a statement that its support to Uganda's response to the outbreak includes access to ...

The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg, Germany. Since then, outbreaks have occurred in a handful of countries in Africa, less frequently than Ebola. Marburg’s natural host is a fruit bat ...

The country reported 15 deaths, with Rwanda’s response praised internationally for its low death rate of 23 per cent — the lowest ever for a Marburg outbreak in Africa. In March 2023 ...