Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Monday that a sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested positive for the highly contagious Marburg ... the virus, making it ...

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 ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus ... the WHO would work with Tanzania to "bring the outbreak under control as soon as possible." The organization is ...

An untreatable Ebola-like virus ... under the radar. Local officials initially raised the alarm last week after a mystery illness struck six people, killing five of them. Experts believed ...

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 ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its ... to have been "identified and under follow-up in both districts." ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country ... which could include bleeding under the skin, in internal organs, or from orifices such as the mouth, eyes ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the ... this latest outbreak under control as soon as ...

Contact persons are under follow-up in the affected districts to prevent further spread. Marburg virus infection spreads through direct contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood ...

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Marburg Virus: Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO director ...