This marks the second Marburg outbreak in Tanzania's Kagera region since 2023. The region is near the border with Rwanda where an outbreak of the disease was declared over just a month ago. Rwanda ...

The outbreak in Rwanda, which shares a border with Tanzania's Kagera region, infected 66 people and killed 15 before it was declared over on December 20. Marburg virus can spread between people ...

AFP via Getty Images This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023. It comes exactly a month after Rwanda, which shares with a border with Kagera, declared its own outbreak of the ...

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

The Petite Barriere border post, one of the crossings between Rwanda and the DR Congo, has returned to normalcy just one week after AFC/M23 rebels captured Goma town. Cross-border trade has also ...

The outbreak in Tanzania, confirmed on January 10, has been reported in the Kagera region, which borders Rwanda. Patients have presented with symptoms such as high fever, headache, muscle weakness ...

The UN health agency also estimated the regional risk as "high", due to Kagera’s "strategic location as a transit hub with significant cross-border movement of population to Rwanda, Uganda ...

This marks the second Marburg outbreak in Tanzania's Kagera region since 2023. The region is near the border with Rwanda where an outbreak of the disease was declared over just a month ago.

The WHO considers the regional risk from Marburg virus disease to be high because Kagera is a transport hub. Officials are concerned that it could spread to nearby countries, including Rwanda ...