Arusha, Jan 31: The East African Community (EAC) has extended its support to Tanzania and other stakeholders following the confirmation of a Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in the Kagera Region, ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg ...

Over 50 people are dead in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo due to an unknown virus, according to the World ...

Meanwhile, in neighbouring Tanzania, nine people have died after testing positive for the Marburg virus, a highly infectious cousin of Ebola. The patient in Uganda, a 32-year-old male nurse ...

THE UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Africa, Lord Collins of Highbury, will visit Tanzania from February 19 to ...

In July 2024, Rwanda faced a Marburg virus outbreak among health workers in the capital Kigali, challenging the nation's health system and testing its pandemic response capabilities. For Rwanda, it ...

The Arusha Declaration, presented by Julius Nyerere in 1967, sought to dismantle neocolonial exploitation through socialism, people's democracy, and self-reliance. February 5 marked the ...

A fatal virus has reportedly been discovered in shrews in Alabama, sparking concerns about potential contagion to humans. The Camp Hill virus — thought to be the first "henipavirus" in North ...

The Arusha Declaration, published on 5 February 1967, was an aspirational document. Much like South Africa's 1955 Freedom Charter, it did not describe the world as it existed. Instead, it ...

Rwanda swiftly brought its recent outbreak of Marburg to a close at the end of December. The government’s response — which took less than three months — was seen as a blueprint on how to ...

A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada ...

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.