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.

Tanzania and the World Health Organisation confirmed on Monday the outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region ... potential cross-border spread. “Our priority is ...

Kenya's health authorities said that robust measures are underway to mitigate the risks of viral diseases such as Marburg, mpo ...

Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infecti ...

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

The WHO cautioned that the risk of the suspected virus spreading in the region remained "high" because Kagera ... border movement to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

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 disease was over.

Subsequent laboratory tests conducted at Kagera's Kabaile Mobile ... 2023 has raised concerns about cross-border transmission, particularly following Rwanda's recent outbreak that infected 66 ...

a rare and deadly hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. That outbreak also occurred in the Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda.

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 ...