A computer illustration of Marburg virus. [AFP] The Kenyan government is ... and avoid sharing personal items like towels, utensils, or clothing. Members of the public are also encouraged to ...

Marburg virus disease is like its close cousin Ebola, but worse. It can have a mortality rate as high as 80% and, unlike at least one strain of Ebola, we do not ... world would look to the WHO ...

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Marburg exists in bats, but does not seem to harm them with outbreaks seeming to occur when the virus is passed from a bat to a human before it is then able to spread through the human population.

Nine people have died in a new outbreak of an 'eye-bleeding' Ebola-like virus, global health chiefs have warned. Marburg ... risk remains low as the virus does not spread easily between people ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus has been detected in northern Tanzania ... patients can die depending on the strain and infection management. How does it spread? The virus is transmitted to ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that ... and are determined to do the same this time around.” ...

An untreatable Ebola-like virus is on the rise in Tanzania, global health chiefs have warned. Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered, has already infected nine people ...

Since the country officially announced the outbreak last week, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious ... and it causes an illness like Ebola, with fever, headache ...

The challenge of containing Marburg is complicated by its initial symptoms, which mirror common ailments like malaria. "In the first week, somebody is still shedding the virus but presenting with ...

Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north ... Burundi and Rwanda. "We do not recommend travel or ...

Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected ...