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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The case was recorded in the northwestern Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda. Kagera was the site of the country's first Marburg outbreak in March 2023, which lasted for nearly two ...