Shamim Chowdhury is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on major international breaking news stories, in particular, conflicts, refugees and natural disasters. She has reported ...
NINE people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease in Tanzania, Africa’s health agency has announced. This ...
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be ...
Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its high fatality rate. Now the World Health Organisation (WHO) is investigating a ...
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Eight people have been killed in a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in the Kagera region of Tanzania, according to the World Health Organization. Nine cases have been ...
His focus is reporting live news, U.S. and U.K. politics, and world news with attention on ... Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit bats and spreads between ...
Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible and infectious virus that comes from the the same family as the Ebola virus. First discovered in 1967 in parts of Marburg and Frankfurt ...
Jan. 16 (UPI) --Tanzania pushed back against a report from the World Health Organization warning of a new Marburg virus outbreak in the country. Tanzania's Health Minister Jenista Mhagama said ...
Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the northwest were believed to ...
Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease, according to the World Health Organization. The virus, related to Ebola and ...
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.