Tanzania has confirmed a new case of Marburg virus disease in the northwestern Kagera region, following 25 negative tests. ... Belonging to the same family as Ebola, Marburg is even deadlier.

Marburg virus, like Ebola, ... This is the second outbreak of the virus in Tanzania’s Kagera region since 2023. A total of nine suspected cases were reported with six deaths in the region.

In 2023, another Marburg outbreak in Tanzania’s Kagera region lasted nearly two months, with nine cases and six deaths. “Zoonotic reservoirs, such as fruit bats, remain endemic to the area ...

This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023. It comes exactly a month after Rwanda, which shares with a border with Kagera, declared its own outbreak of the disease was over .

Nine dead of Ebola-like ‘eye-bleeding disease’ with mortality rate of 90% in fresh outbreak triggering ‘pandemic fears ... The cases were reported in the Kagera region of Tanzani a.

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...

WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Tanzanian health officials disputed the report hours later ...