Tanzania’s Ministry of Health has deployed a team of experts to the Kagera region to collect specimens and conduct laboratory tests following reports of a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus ...

The Foreign Office has issued a warning for Brits planning a winter sun getaway in Tanzania. Certain regions of the ...

Kagera, a major transit hub, sees frequent movement of people to and from neighboring countries such as the Democratic ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister ...

The Kagera region is a transit hub, and the detection and isolation of infected people has been “delayed,” the WHO said. The risk of infection is currently high in Tanzania and the broader region – ...

Officials previously questioned whether the deadly disease was indeed present in the African country, which had seen 8 suspected Marburg deaths.

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Tanzanian health officials disputed the report hours later ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in north-west Tanzania, saying that at least eight people have already been killed by the ...

Kagera, a major transit hub, sees frequent movement of people to and from neighboring countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, and Rwanda. WHO officials have been ...