BUKOBA: IN efforts to control the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), radio presenters from 14 stations based in the Lake ...
In the first of the two outbreaks, affected children had contact with bats. Further investigations are underway for both ...
On Jan. 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease in Biharamulo District in the northwestern part of the country’s Kagera Region. The announcement comes after public ...
Marburg virus disease is highly virulent and causes haemorrhagic fever. It belongs to the same family as the virus that causes Ebola virus disease. Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly.
These are the victories that kept us going." The Marburg virus, which is transmitted to humans by fruit bats, spreads through ...
Public health emergencies, including outbreaks of cholera, mpox and, more recently, viral haemorrhagic fevers, are posing significant threats to the safety and wellbeing of millions of children in ...
WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...
In the East African country of Rwanda, however, a courageous, unified, and successful response to the global threat posed by a major outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) offers reason for hope ...
Experts say the Marburg virus has no evolutionary or scientific link proteins in snake venoms and is unlikely to spread globally. Marburg virus disease, a severe hemorrhagic fever that has a high ...
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 ...