Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World ...

The World Health Organization speculated that a mass poisoning event was behind the deaths of 60 people. But African experts ...

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

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly ... in the country’s administrative capital Dodoma. The announcement came after the WHO ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads ... This story has been corrected to show that Tanzania’s president spoke in Dodoma, not Dar es Salaam.

[DAR ES SALAAM] Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the ... the president told a press conference in Dodoma, in the east of ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...