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

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma ... Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan said at a press conference on ... which had infected 66 people and killed 15, was over. The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and then through ...

A deadly virus which leaves patients with bleeding eyes has swept parts of a country following an outbreak. Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan declared an outbreak after one case of Marburg ...