Tanzania on Friday declared the end of the Marburg Virus Disease outbreak which was confirmed just over two months ago in the north-western Kagera region. It was the country’s first outbreak of ...
Tanzania's health Minister Ummy Mwalimu has confirmed a mysterious disease that has killed five people to be the Marburg virus. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed that this ...
the emergency response can be rapidly accelerated so that we can save lives and stop the virus as soon as possible,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. “Marburg is highly ...
The Marburg virus is a relative of the Ebola virus ... Equatorial Guinea declared a Marburg outbreak on February 13 and Tanzania confirmed the outbreak on March 21, according to US CDC.
The situation with the Marburg virus entered uncharted territory on March 21, when Tanzania ... Marburg outbreaks. Between 1998 and 2000, 128 patients died out of a total of 154 confirmed cases ...
The ‘cousin’ of Ebola that leaves its victims in a ‘ghost-like’ state is one of the world’s deadliest viruses – and there’s ...
Samples were sent to the Institut Pasteur in Senegal for confirmation, which has just confirmed ... there is an outbreak. Treatment is solely supportive care for Marburg virus.
The Marburg virus was first detected ... that Marburg has been identified in West Africa. There was one confirmed case in Guinea last year, but that outbreak was declared over in September ...
Two outbreaks of the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola which causes a severe and often fatal disease in humans, have been confirmed in Africa in recent months. It has sparked concern among ...
Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first nine deaths from the Marburg virus ... Since then, outbreaks have been reported in Kenya, South, Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Only one person in Europe ...
Ghana is having its first ever Marburg virus outbreak with four cases being reported ... the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa (in someone who had recently traveled to Zimbabwe ...