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

Marburg virus disease or MVD is a highly transmissible ... it spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, vomit, or urine of an infected individual.

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Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister ...

Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment, originates in fruit ...

Marburg virus is a highly infectious virus that causes ... Contact with infected body fluids (blood, saliva, vomit, urine, etc.). Direct contact with contaminated surfaces or materials like ...

Tanzania's president said a sample tested positive for the Marburg virus, which has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent if ...

Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly ... Severe watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea and vomiting can begin on the third day. Within a week, many patients develop ...

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease, a ...

A Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has caused eight ... abdominal cramps, nausea, and vomiting, with a non-itchy rash appearing between 2 and 7 days after symptoms start. From the fifth day ...