NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

NINE people have died in a new outbreak of an ‘eye-bleeding’ Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned.Marburg, one of ...

Tanzania ’s president has confirmed the outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one ... Marburg virus, like Ebola, transmits to people from fruit bats and ...

Tanzania faces a deadly Marburg virus outbreak claiming 8 lives in Kagera Learn about the virus containment efforts and ...

President Samia Suluhu spoke in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital ... Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 16 (Reuters ... and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats endemic to parts of East Africa.

Tanzania Says No Sign of Marburg Outbreak in the Country DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters ... the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats ...

DAR ES SALAAM, - Tanzania's government said no-one ... and is from the same virus family as the one responsible for Ebola, which is transmitted to people from fruit bats endemic to parts of ...