BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...

A travel medicine expert is cautioning against overreaction following the Tanzania government's confirmation of an outbreak of the highly virulent Marburg virus in the northwestern Kagera region.

Tanzania is grappling with another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed at least eight lives in the north-western Kagera region. The confirmation came after a laboratory in ...

Trump issued executive orders that withdrew the US from WHO and halted USAID funding, which also keeps people uninformed of ...

I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one ...

Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...

The Government of Tanzania issued a travel advisory note on 21 January, mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry following an outbreak of Marburg virus ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

Public health emergencies, including outbreaks of cholera, mpox and, more recently, viral haemorrhagic fevers, are posing ...

The Ministry of Health has intensified surveillance and screening at all 26 ports of entry into the country in the wake of ...

Kenya has confirmed 41 cases of monkey pox (mpox) across 12 counties, with one fatality reported since the outbreak began in ...