What is this deadly bleeding eye virus that is spreading rapidly across Tanzania and has made WHO issue an alarm. Read on to ...

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 ...

The president of Tanzania has confirmed a case of the Marburg virus in the country. Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President ...

Tanzania's National Public Health Laboratory has collected samples from two patients for testing, but it still hasn't been officially confirmed that the outbreak has been caused my Marburg virus.

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Ebola virus and Marburg virus are single-stranded, enveloped and negative sense-RNA viruses belonging to the Filoviridae ...

the virus kills half of the people it infects, according to the WHO. Tanzania says that along with the one confirmed case, ...

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

Marburg causes a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. It is transmitted from fruit bats and belongs to the same family of viruses as Ebola. With a fatality rate that can reach close to 90% ...

Marburg virus disease, or MVD, is a serious, often fatal disease. The virus causes a severe viral hemorrhagic fever, according to the World Health Organization. It was first detected in 1967 ...