Behind a red, locked door is a cave with thousands of bats that led the East African country into its first battle with ...

BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...

In Africa, WHO adds, previous outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. The ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively supporting the response to an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania’s Kagera region, which is being led by the Ministry of Health. The outbreak was declared ...

Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month, while in December Rwanda announced that its own outbreak of Marburg was over. The ongoing Marburg outbreak in ...

An effort to curb Tanzania’s second outbreak of Marburg virus disease in almost two years includes enhanced case detection, treatment centres, and a mobile laboratory in the northwestern Kagera ...

IN SHORT: A video that has been making the rounds since December 2024 claims Uganda's health minister has announced an outbreak of the Marburg virus. But the video is from 2017. It is not from ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola. Of these, nine have died ...

Subsequently, outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic ... declared another outbreak in January 2025. Marburg has a 50 percent fatality rate, which ...