Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities.

Storyline: The Tanzanian government is taking decisive action to combat the resurgence of Marburg virus disease (MVD), implementing quarantine measures and source tracing to curb the spread of the ...

The Trump administration is overhauling the US’s key foreign aid programmes – and global health initiatives are directly ...

The World Health Organization chief asked global leaders to lean on Washington to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision ...

Trump's actions could allow harmful viruses like the Marburg virus, which is similar to Ebola ... may allow one of the deadliest illnesses in the world to enter the United States.

NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...

The World Health Organisation notes that Marburg Virus Disease is rare but severe and often fatal in humans. In certain outbreaks, fatality rates have swung drastically from 24% to 88% in the past.

The World Health Organisation stated: "Marburg virus disease (MVD), formerly known as Marburg haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. “The average MVD case fatality ...

According to the World Health Organisation, the Marburg virus disease is a deadly disease which is highly virulent, can cause haemorrhagic fever and in some cases can also be fatal. It belongs to ...

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...

On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...

One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the second outbreak" in Tanzania since 2023, the president told a press briefing broadcast from the capital Dodoma. Last week, the World Health ...