NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

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Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one strain of Ebola, we do not have an approved vaccine or ...

Tanzania confirms a Marburg virus outbreak after initial denials prompting urgent response from the Africa CDC Learn about ...

But though Marburg virus infection had never previously been diagnosed in Rwanda, the 2024 outbreak was not the country’s first engagement with a filovirus. In the darkest hour of the West ...

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 ...

The World Health Organisation warned that the risk of the outbreak spreading to neighbouring countries is high.

AN outbreak of a lethal ‘eye-bleeding’ virus has been confirmed in Tanzania, the president has announced. It comes just a ...

The minister noted that as of January 15th , this year, laboratory results for all suspected individuals tested negative for ...

Beyond saving lives during outbreaks, robust pandemic preparedness safeguards economies, sustains societal functioning, and reinforces the resilience of global systems. The new EU project COMBINE ...

International research team seeks to examine the virus-host interaction of Marburg virus (MARV) and establish a blueprint for ...