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KAGERA: AUTHORITIES in Kagera Region have stepped up Ebola surveillance by directing schools to screen all students arriving from neighbouring countries affected by the disease, as part of efforts to ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Marburg virus: Tanzania confirms outbreak of ‘bleeding eye disease’; WHO, health officials on alert
Marburg virus outbreaks have a fatality rate of between 24% and 88%. The worst recorded outbreak was in Angola in 2004-2005, where the above picture was taken. (Image Credits: Reuters) Marburg ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: A sample from a remote Tanzanian region tests positive for Marburg disease, confirming WHO fears
ARUSHA, Tanzania — Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Tanzania: Kagera Records Improvement in Childhood Stunting
Bukoba — KAGERA: THE rate of stunting among children aged below five years in Kagera Region has significantly improved from 41.7 per cent recorded during 2020/21 to 34.6 per cent this year, it has ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Tanzania confirms Marburg virus outbreak after initial denial
Tanzania's president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Tanzania denies suspected Marburg outbreak after WHO alert
Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation (WHO) report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. On Tuesday, the global health agency said ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Eight dead in suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania: WHO
The WHO said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people, warning that the risk of further spread in the country and region was "high". The United ...
News Tanzania » Kagera » Health: Suspected outbreak of Marburg virus kills eight in Tanzania, WHO says
Nairobi: A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an outbreak of the disease ...