WHO reported Wednesday that a suspected outbreak of Marburg disease has claimed eight lives in a remote region of northern Tanzania.

WHO reported eight suspected cases of the Marburg virus in Tanzania. However, health officials in the country have denied the presence of the virus.

The United Republic of Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region, located in the northwest of the country.

There have been 15 outbreaks of Marburg between 1967 and 2022. Some involved just one or two cases, while the largest was the 2004 to 2005 outbreak in Angola, when 252 people were infected.

The last widespread outbreak was in 2005, when 329 died in Angola, with an 88% fatality rate. Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany ...

2 Most followed trajectories similar to a 2005 event in Angola in ... But though Marburg virus infection had never previously been diagnosed in Rwanda, the 2024 outbreak was not the country ...

Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and ...

The first Marburg outbreak was reported in Tanzania in March 2023 in the Kagera region. Previous outbreaks of the disease have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...