Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...

What is this deadly bleeding eye virus that is spreading rapidly across Tanzania and has made WHO issue an alarm. Read on to ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country ... people had been killed by the disease in a remote part of Tanzania. The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

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

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.

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has ... from fruit bats which are endemic to that part of East Africa. The WHO said it received reliable ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit ... the first cases were recorded in Germany and Serbia (then part of Yugoslavia) in 1967 when laboratory workers handling ...

The World Health Organization said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit ...

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ARUSHA, Tanzania — The World Health Organization said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania. “We are aware of 9 cases ...