Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is currently in Tanzania to help coordinate a response to the outbreak of Marburg virus ... (Updates with graph, and more reaction in final paragraph.

The country’s exit from the agency means WHO leadership will lose about 14 percent of its $6.9 billion budget (Photo: Graph courtesy of WHO ... WHO is currently working to stop outbreaks of Marburg ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...

She said the government has activated the Marburg Contingency Plan, and enhanced screening at points of entry. Regional coordination efforts remain strong, with Kenya working closely with agencies ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

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Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country. One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in the Kagera region, which resulted in nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a suspected outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region of northwestern Tanzania, with nine people reportedly infected, of whom eight ...