BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake Zone Regions namely Mwanza, Kigoma, Shinyanga, Kagera, Simiyu and Mara have ...

Fifteen people died from the virus, according to the Rwanda Biomedical Center—most of them doctors and nurses with decades of ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

Additionally, 25 people with suspected infections whose test results were later negative for Marburg virus are being closely monitored. This is the second Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania.

Fatality estimates vary between outbreaks from 24% to 88% of people who've caught the disease. On average, the fatality rate is about 50%. Marburg virus is spread by certain fruit bats to humans ...

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), ...

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 ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of ... can die depending on the strain and infection management. The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats. It spreads among humans through direct ...

How does Marburg virus spread The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission. There are currently no approved vaccines or ...

One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak" in Tanzania ... suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania had killed eight people, assessing the risk at the national level as "high".

In December, neighbouring Rwanda declared an outbreak in the country, which had infected 66 people and killed 15, was over. On average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects ...