Tanzania is grappling with another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed at least eight lives in the north-western Kagera region. The confirmation came after a laboratory in ...

On January 20, 2025, Tanzania reported an outbreak of the Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the Kagera region. Also Read: ...

A new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus has gripped Tanzania, in the African subcontinent claiming at least eight lives. The outbreak was reported from north-western Kagera region after one ...

One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak" in ... The case was recorded in the northwestern Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda. Kagera was the site of the ...

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 ...

Marburg virus outbreaks have a fatality rate of between 24% and 88%. The worst recorded outbreak was in Angola in 2004-2005, where the above picture was taken. (Image Credits: Reuters) Marburg ...

Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases ...

WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats ...

On January 14, The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus had killed eight people in the Kagera region. The Kagera region borders Rwanda, which also ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with ... Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg was confirmed in the northwestern region of Kagera. At a joint press conference on Monday ...

Tanzania today confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after one case tested positive for the virus following investigations and laboratory analysis of ...

Marburg virus, like Ebola, transmits to people from ... This is the second outbreak of the virus in Tanzania’s Kagera region since 2023. A total of nine suspected cases were reported with ...