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 ...

The Marburg virus, which is transmitted to humans by fruit bats, spreads through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. Symptoms begin with a high fever and can lead to haemorrhaging ...

In neighbouring Tanzania, nine people died last month after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

Marburg kills 88% of the people who catch it ... the nation’s potential to respond to these various infectious disease threats at a time when protective measures need to be ramped up most.

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

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.

Community involvement is crucial because when people trust the system, they are more likely to report cases and participate ...