TANZANIA’S decision to extend maternity leave for employees who give birth to premature babies marks a significant ...

In the face of the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak in Kagera, Tanzania, frontline health workers and local communities have received vital support from the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s ...

Jan. 16 (UPI) --Tanzania pushed back against a report from the World Health Organization warning of a new Marburg virus outbreak in the country. Tanzania's Health Minister Jenista Mhagama said ...

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids of infected people.

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 was ...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been told to halt all communication with the World Health Organization.

Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the northwest were believed to ...

The World Health Organization has confirmed the outbreak in Tanzania, less than a month after neighboring Rwanda declared an end to its months-long battle. The Tanzania outbreak reportedly killed ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Tanzanian health expert was on Wednesday elected as the new director general of the East, Central, and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC), an ...