A technical team from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) is in Rwanda as part of the preparations for a study on Marburg virus immunity among recovered patients.Led by Rwanda ...

An outbreak of an Ebola-like virus has been detected in the East African country of Tanzania. So far, only one person has tested positive for Marbug virus, said officials ...

Two districts in the northwest Kagera region of Tanzania have reported outbreaks of the Marburg virus, known for its ... Samples have been taken from two patients and tested by the National ...

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

Eight people have died in Tanzania’s Kagera region following a suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus disease ... eye disease because it damages the patient’s blood vessels, causing them ...

Suspected Outbreak of Marburg Virus Kills Eight in Tanzania ... muscle weakness and finally external bleeding. Samples from two patients were awaiting testing at Tanzania's national laboratory ...

Similar to Ebola, the Marburg virus is believed to originate in fruit ... with health care workers handling the initial patients among the hardest hit. Jimmy Whitworth, emeritus professor of ...

Advertisement "Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one patient as being infected with the Marburg virus," Hassan said ...

Ebola outbreak has been declared in Africa this week, with up to nine people already dead. Uganda reported an outbreak in the capital, Kampala, with the first case being a man who died on ...

Transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Marburg virus. Marburg virus, first recognized in ... [+] 1967, causes a severe type of hemorrhagic fever, which affects humans, as well as non-human ...