The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

Officials previously questioned whether the deadly disease was indeed present in the African country, which had seen 8 suspected Marburg deaths.

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A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in the Kagera region of Tanzania ... WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, MD, noted that WHO does not “recommend travel or trade restrictions ...

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East ... Tanzania had killed eight people, assessing the risk at ...

WHO said it received reports on Jan. 10 and Jan. 11 of nine people ... diseases like Marburg that cannot be tested in traditional ways. Thousands of doses of investigational Marburg virus vaccine ...

Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after ... On average, the virus kills half of the people it infects, according to the WHO.

The Marburg virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through human-to-human transmission. Community engagement is key to successfully controlling outbreaks ...

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 ...

Certain regions of the equatorial holiday spot are currently experiencing a deadly outbreak of Marburg Virus ... of infected people as well as contaminated surfaces and materials like clothing.