DAR ES SALAAM - Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania's northwestern region of Kagera, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. In a statement ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), ...

Speaking at a joint news conference with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Hassan said that laboratory tests conducted at the Kabaile mobile laboratory in ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...

Namely the Kagera region has seen 10 active cases reported ... Rwanda and Uganda. The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe and often fatal in humans.

The outbreak was reported from north-western Kagera region after one person ... in a statement to the press alongside the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom ...

Last week, the World Health Organization said that a suspected ... The case was recorded in the northwestern Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda. Kagera was the site of the country's ...

Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after ... during a press briefing alongside World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director ... This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023. It comes exactly a month ...