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 ...

Atravel advisory has been issued mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry ...

At least eight people in Tanzania have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal Marburg virus, according to global health officials. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the Ebola-like virus ...

Tests have, so far, all proven negative for Ebola or other common haemorrhagic fever diseases like Marburg dubbed 'the eye-bleeding virus'. Dr Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global ...

Recognised examples of such diseases include Ebola, Lassa fever and Marburg virus. Symptoms recorded so far of the unknown disease in the DRC include fever, chills, headache, body aches ...

Marburg also kills around 50 per cent of those it infects ... It's passed on through respiratory droplets produced when a person with the virus coughs or sneezes, or by contact with objects ...

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed ...

The Government of Tanzania issued a travel advisory note on January 21 mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry following an outbreak of marburg virus ...

Health officials currently are none the wiser as to the cause of the outbreak, with patients testing negative for similar hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola and Marburg virus. Tests revealed that ...

The Government of Tanzania issued a travel advisory note on January 21 mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry following an outbreak of marburg virus ...