The World Health Organization (WHO) has reinforced its support to Tanzania’s post-Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) recovery by ...

“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg virus,” she said at a press ...

Dar es Salaam — Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO ...

DAR ES SALAAM (GO) - Tanzania has confirmed eight cases of Marburg, a high-death viral hemorrhagic fever with symptoms broadly similar to those of Ebola, in its first-ever outbreak, according to the ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, ... Subsequent laboratory tests conducted at Kagera's Kabaile Mobile Laboratory and confirmed in Dar es Salaam ...

The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in ...

Speaking about the virus Hassan said: “Laboratory tests conducted in the Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and subsequently confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one patient as being infected ...

DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed the country's second outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in two years. Speaking at a joint news conference with ...

Marburg virus treatment. There is no cure or specific treatment for Marburg disease, the CDC said. Still, “Early supportive care with rehydration, and symptomatic treatment improves survival ...

A WHO risk assessment in September showed that Tanzania is at high to very high risk for infectious disease outbreaks as its borders span several countries, including the African Great Lakes region.

This image, captured in 1981, shows strands of the Marburg virus magnified about 100,000X under an electron microscope. Image: CDC / Dr. Erskine Palmer, Russell Regnery, Ph.D. At least eight ...