In 2023, another Marburg outbreak in Tanzania’s Kagera region – which borders Rwanda – lasted nearly two months, with nine cases and six deaths. “Zoonotic reservoirs, such as fruit bats ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

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

On January 14, The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus had killed eight people in the Kagera region. The Kagera region borders Rwanda, which also ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

Tanzania is grappling with another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed at least eight lives in the north-western Kagera region. The confirmation came after a laboratory in ...

In 2023, an outbreak in Kagera, which shares a border with Rwanda, killed at least five people. There have been 15 outbreaks of Marburg between 1967 and 2022. Some involved just one or two cases ...

The ongoing Marburg outbreak in northern Tanzania 's Kagera region has killed at least two people, according to local health authorities. Ebola, which is spread by contact with bodily fluids of an ...

Advertisement "Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed ... first warned of a suspected Marburg outbreak on Jan. 14 after identifying nine suspected ...

The cases were reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania ... It comes a month after WHO declared the end of a three-month Marburg outbreak in Rwanda which killed 15 people.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has confirmed a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country.

Kagera was the site of the country’s first Marburg outbreak in March 2023, which lasted for nearly two months and involved nine cases including six deaths, the WHO said. “We have demonstrated ...