DAR ES SALAAM - Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania's northwestern region of Kagera, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. In a statement ...

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively supporting the response to an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania's Kagera region, which is being led by the Ministry of Health. The outbreak was declared ...

Ugandan officials are preparing to deploy a trial vaccine as part of efforts to stem an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, ...

A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...

Namely the Kagera region has seen 10 active cases reported ... Rwanda and Uganda. The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe and often fatal in humans.

The outbreak was reported from north-western Kagera region after one person ... in a statement to the press alongside the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom ...

Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region after ... during a press briefing alongside World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Dr ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director ... This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023. It comes exactly a month ...

Last week, the World Health Organization said that a suspected ... The case was recorded in the northwestern Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda. Kagera was the site of the country ...

Tanzania has officially declared an outbreak of the Marburg virus in its remote Kagera region, following ... and Prevention (Africa CDC). The World Health Organization (WHO) initially raised ...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization ... eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Tanzanian health officials disputed the report ...

Hassan announced the outbreak in a press conference with World Health Organization Director-General ... conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam ...