After a Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania, the World Health Organization said it's working with the government to "rapidly scale up control measures” ...

Tanzania reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure. Testing by the east African country ...

A case of the bleeding virus Marburg has been confirmed in Tanzania, a week after authorities denied there was an outbreak.

Tanzania has announced its first-ever cases of Marburg virus disease, a deadly infection that has a fatality rate of around 50 percent. The World Health Organization said in a statement that ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of the disease was ...

Marburg virus is rare among people but it is highly infectious once it finds a human host, and the disease can be fatal, with an average fatality rate of around 50%, according to the WHO.

Marburg virus is a filovirus, like its cousin Ebola. Marburg appears to be even rarer than Ebola, with fewer than 500 people confirmed to have ever had the disease. Symptoms are similar to Ebola ...

Marburg is a virus that can infect humans who come into contact with its animal host, a type of bats native to Africa. It can then be transmitted from an infected person to others through contact ...

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be ...

Marburg virus has been documented in the semen of male patients up to seven weeks after they have recovered. To date, no additional cases have been detected in Tanzania, and the outbreak hasn’t ...

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.