Speaking in Dodoma, the capital ... of northern Tanzania has tested positive for the highly contagious Marburg disease, a ...

However, on Thursday last week, Minister for Health, Jenista Mhagma, announced that Tanzania is now free from Marburg virus ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... This story has been corrected to show that Tanzania’s president spoke in Dodoma, not Dar es Salaam.

The Marburg virus is a member of the filoviridae (filoviruses) family. The disease has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days, according to WHO. It then manifests its symptoms suddenly.

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox diseases among others. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...

Kenya has heightened its preparedness for a potential Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak following the confirmation of a case in Tanzania's Kagera region on Sunday, January 20. The Ministry of ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian health authorities on Thursday declared the end of the country's second Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak after recording no new cases for 42 days ...

From monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the most recent outbreak of the Marburg virus in Rwanda, health authorities are facing significant challenges in managing these deadly diseases.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids ...