Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively supporting the response to an outbreak of Marburg virus in Tanzania's Kagera region, which is being led by the Ministry of Health. The outbreak was declared ...

This follows reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicating that eight people have died in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Kagera Region. The government trusts that once ...

Uganda has had access to candidate vaccine doses since the end of an Ebola outbreak in September 2022 that killed at least 55 ...

DAR ES SALAAM - Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Tanzania's northwestern region of Kagera, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. In a statement ...

A nurse in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, died after testing positive for Ebola, a health official said Thursday, in the first recorded fatality since the last outbreak ended in 2023. Diana Atwine, ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 26 (Xinhua/GNA) — The World Health Organization (WHO ... Nairobi, to Bukoba in the Kagera region, would ...

Kagera Region. She assured the public that the country has successfully controlled the spread of the disease. This announcement comes six days after the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that ...

Marburg virus outbreaks have a fatality rate of between 24% and 88%. The worst recorded outbreak was in Angola in 2004-2005, where the above picture was taken. (Image Credits: Reuters) Marburg ...

Kenya has stepped up its preparedness for Marburg virus disease (MVD) following the recent outbreak in the neighbouring Tanzania, which has reportedly claimed eight lives as of January 16.

Hassan announced the outbreak in a press conference with World Health Organization Director-General ... conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam ...