WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany ...

Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly ... while the largest was the 2004 to 2005 outbreak in Angola, when 252 people were infected. There are no authorised vaccines or drugs to treat ...

notably in Angola (2004–2005) and Uganda (2017). These outbreaks highlight the virus's potential for high mortality and rapid spread. The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans through prolonged ...

2 Most followed trajectories similar to a 2005 event in Angola in which most of the ... than short-term international teams. But though Marburg virus infection had never previously been diagnosed ...

The United Republic of Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region, located in the northwest of the country.

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 ...

The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany ...