DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed the country's second outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in two years. Speaking at a joint news conference with World ...

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), ...

A Marburg virus disease case can only be confirmed through laboratory ... Haemorrhage (such as hematemesis, bleeding from injection sites, gastrointestinal bleeding) may occur around 5-7 days after ...

Symptoms of Marburg virus disease are similar to those of other viral haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola disease, and of infectious diseases like malaria or typhoid. Diagnosis can be difficult, ...

The virus has already infected ten people since the nation officially announced the outbreak last week. Of these infections nine have died.

Tanzania is right now experiencing a Marburg outbreak, with the death of eight of the nine confirmed patients. The only way to safeguard Americans against the virus, which triggers bleeding from ...