Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if untreated.
The source of the outbreak is still unknown and additional cases are expected, health officials said. View on euronews ...
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 ...
Infectious Marburg disease — with 88% fatality rate — is discovered in remote corner of Tanzania
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 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 ...
Kagera region is an important transit hub west of Lake Victoria, which borders Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi. Cross-border movement is a significant in the area and Marburg cases have already been ...
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