In the face of the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, frontline health workers and local communities have received vital support from the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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), ...
The Trump administration is limiting the nation’s ability to respond to infectious disease as Marburg, Ebola rise ...
Tanzania declared an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg disease earlier this month ... but they suspect the first person infected in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with an infected ...
Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health ...
A Ugandan health official says a nurse in the capital, Kampala, has died of Ebola, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, permanent secretary of the health ...
Bats harbor many viruses that can spill over into humans, including Marburg, Ebola, and famously SARS-CoV-2. But while these ...
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.