Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the northwest of the country, with one confirmed case so far.

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.

Five people are dead following eight confirmed cases of the first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania, health officials are reporting. Marburg is a high-death viral hemorrhagic fever ...

Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD). Tanzania's National Public Health Laboratory analysed samples to determine the cause of illness after eight people developed ...

The virus' presence in both Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania mark the first outbreak of the disease in either country. It comes approximately six months after an outbreak of cases was reported in ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country’s first – in the Kagera region, which resulted in nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...

The new emergence in East Africa is the second outbreak of the Marburg virus to pop up so far in 2023. A separate confirmed outbreak was first reported by the WHO in Equatorial Guinea on February ...

Tanzania previously reported an outbreak of Marburg in March 2023 – the country's first – in Kagera region, in which a total of nine cases (eight confirmed and one probable) and six deaths ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country. One "confirmed case of Marburg virus marks the ...