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 ...
Since then, there have been several outbreaks of Marburg virus in sub-Saharan Africa ... in Equatorial Guinea and in Tanzania ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record ... and Senegal), causing 4293 suspected and confirmed cases and claiming 2296 lives (as of September ...