At least eight people in Tanzania have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal Marburg virus, according to global health officials. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the Ebola-like virus ...

Tanzanian health authorities declared the end of the country's second Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak after recor ...

Ebola and Marburg are severe and highly infectious ... It's passed on through respiratory droplets produced when a person with the virus coughs or sneezes, or by contact with objects or ...

WHO officials have identified two outbreaks of a mystery illness in the area that has sickened hundreds and killed over 50 people to date.

“Marburg is highly infectious,” a WHO expert explained Following the death of nine people due to the so-called Marburg virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has convened an emergency ...

Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 when a ... "So now there’s this chain of five people with the disease, four of whom died," says Nichol. When the tissues were sequenced in Atlanta ...

Body fluids transferred through unprotected sex or a lesion can cause this disease to pass on from one person to another. Bleeding (hemorrhage) fever is a result of this disease. Marburg virus’s ...

The WHO said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people, warning that the risk of further spread in the country and region was "high".

Marburg is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola, a highly virulent disease that causes hemorrhagic fever. The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, saying on Thursday that close collaboration had been key to the response.