New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has donated essential medical equipment worth $30,000 (78m/-) to help combat the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera Region. In a statement, WHO’s ...

Tanzania is a popular holiday destination, worth-renowned for its incredible safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro and the flawless ...

A CDC program tests wastewater from airplanes, looking for pathogens that may have hitched a ride with passengers on long-haul international flights.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) welcomed a declaration by Tanzania on the end of the deadly Marburg virus outbreak, ...

The health clinic where Alice Okwirry collects her HIV medication in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been rationing supplies of ...

It has been five years since the world was blown into the tumult of a lethal pandemic. Back then, deserted streets and ...

Tanzania has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said Monday, the first time the virus has been ...

Multiple hemorrhagic fever viruses are smoldering: Ebola in Uganda, Marburg in Tanzania, and Lassa in Nigeria and Sierra ...

Ebola in Uganda is the latest in a trend of outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers in the east African region. Tanzania ...

Scientists suspect the first person infected with Ebola in an outbreak acquired the virus through contact with ... fevers in ...

This is the latest viral epidemic to hit the East African region in the past year, following outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox diseases among others. The World Health Organisation (WHO ...