WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus added ... Amid various health emergencies, WHO is actively engaged in efforts to control outbreaks of the Marburg virus in Tanzania, Ebola in Uganda, ...

THE East African Community (EAC) has expressed its unwavering solidarity with Tanzania and other key stakeholders following the confirmation of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region.

The head of the UN's health agency warned Friday that history would not forgive countries if they failed to strike a pandemic ...

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Health officials from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) today said Uganda’s Ebola outbreak ...

At least two people have been killed and seven others infected with the Sudan strain of the highly contagious Ebola virus in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The authorities have also put more than 40 ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [KIGALI] In July 2024, Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation’s health system and testing ...

Rwanda swiftly brought its recent outbreak of Marburg to a close at the end of December. The government’s response — which took less than three months — was seen as a blueprint on how to ...

How can Marburg virus disease infections be prevented? There is no vaccine or treatment for Marburg virus disease. If you are or have been in a region where a Marburg virus disease outbreak has ...

Symptoms of Marburg virus disease are similar to those of other viral haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola disease, and of infectious diseases like malaria or typhoid. Diagnosis can be difficult, ...