Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital, Kampala, with the first confirmed patient dying from it, ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

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On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country. One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in the Kagera region, which resulted in nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...

26 suspected cases were tested of which one came back positive for Marburg Virus. Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg ...

Marburg virus is a highly infectious virus that causes Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe hemorrhagic fever with high fatality rates. It belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus ...