Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

Zika transmission has been reported in more than 90 countries as the spread of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the ...

Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

This follows reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating that eight people have died in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region. The government trusts that once ...

The Marburg virus, a deadly relative of Ebola, has resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine and killing eight. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued a travel warning. No vaccine or specific ...

The disease is a close cousin of Ebola, causing similar symptoms and spreading in the same way. It can cause death in up to ...

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

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

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the ...

The Tanzanian government has denied reports by the World Health Organsation (WHO) of a suspected new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwestern Kagera region, insisting that all ...

The World Health Organization has warned of a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in northern Tanzania, with eight people believed to have already died from the disease. WHO chief Tedros ...