Atravel advisory has been issued mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry ...

The World Health Organization is investigating "another cluster of illness" in northern Congo, as a deadly mystery disease spreads in the region.

Tanzania today declared the end of Marburg virus disease outbreak after recording no new cases over 42 days since the death ...

The rapid spread of illness in the African country may be due to contaminated water, rather than a virus that jumped from bat ...

However, on Thursday last week, Minister for Health, Jenista Mhagma, announced that Tanzania is now free from Marburg virus ...

Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.

First identified in 1976 and thought to have crossed over from bats, Ebola is a deadly viral disease spread through direct ...

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