Africa CDC Joins Forces to Contain the Virus ... This is not Tanzania’s first encounter with the Marburg virus. The country reported its first outbreak in March 2023, also in the Kagera region.

In January 2025, Uganda ruled out imposing new lockdown measures despite global health concerns. It stressed its confidence in its health system. The TikTok video claiming to show a recent Marburg ...

Nairobi: An outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed nine people in Tanzania, Africa's health agency said Thursday, up from eight suspected deaths reported by the World Health Organization last week.

The first outbreaks occurred in 1967 in lab workers in Germany and Yugoslavia who were working with African green monkeys imported from Uganda. The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg ...

Tanzania is witnessing another outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus and has confirmed at least nine deaths as of Friday.

In a statement, Dr. Richard Dawood, an adviser to the African Travel & Tourism Association, said, "For the vast majority of tourist activities, the risk is virtually zero." ...

A nurse in Uganda has died of Ebola, a health official said on Thursday, marking the first recorded death in the country from the severe illness in two years. The 32-year-old male nurse was an ...

Uganda has confirmed an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the capital Kampala with the first confirmed patient dying from it on ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) will be keenly felt across the ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has declared an outbreak of Marburg virus, confirming a single case in the northwestern region of Kagera after a meeting with WHO director-general Tedros ...

A POTENTIAL new outbreak of Ebola has sickened at least 12 people and killed eight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...