Tanzania's health Minister Ummy Mwalimu has confirmed a mysterious disease that has killed five people to be the Marburg virus. "Our public health laboratory results have confirmed that this ...

Marburg virus has killed five people in Tanzania's north-western ... the country declared the end of its outbreak. In 2021, Guinea health officials confirmed West Africa's first case of the ...

The Marburg virus is a highly virulent microbe ... which has wreaked havoc in several previous outbreaks in Africa. Fatality rates from Marburg in confirmed cases have ranged from 24 percent ...

almost all in Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects, with previous outbreaks killing between 24% and 88% of ...

the emergency response can be rapidly accelerated so that we can save lives and stop the virus as soon as possible,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti. “Marburg is highly ...

But we’ve only had two confirmed cases of mpox – both imported – and those have now been dealt with.” Recently declared a ...

The WHO on Wednesday declared the outbreak in Africa a public health emergency after cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo spread to nearby countries. Clade Ib, the version of the virus behind ...

The mpox outbreaks in Africa are a global emergency, with cases confirmed among children and ... and called for international help to stop the virus' spread. "This is something that should concern ...

The Ebola virus disease outbreak now ravaging parts of West Africa is the largest on record ... and Senegal), causing 4293 suspected and confirmed cases and claiming 2296 lives (as of September ...

Global health officials on Thursday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to a growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign of its spread outside the ...