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Outbreak. On 16 March 2023, the Ministry of Health of Tanzania announced that seven cases and five deaths from an unknown disease had been reported in two villages in Bukoba district, Kagera region, northern Tanzania. The cases were later confirmed as Marburg virus infection and on 21 March 2023. Though there is an ongoing outbreak of marburg ...
A Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania was first reported on 21 March 2023 by the Ministry of Health of Tanzania. [105] This was the first time that Tanzania had reported an outbreak of the disease. On 2 June 2023, Tanzania declared the outbreak over. [106] There were 9 total infections, resulting in 6 total deaths. [60] [61]
Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus of the Filoviridae family of viruses and a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus, genus Marburgvirus. [1] It causes Marburg virus disease in primates, a form of viral hemorrhagic fever. [2] The World Health Organization (WHO) rates it as a Risk Group 4 Pathogen (requiring biosafety level 4 ...
The average fatality rate of Marburg is 50%, according to WHO, but the case fatality ratio of past outbreaks has ranged from 25% to about 90%, Amira Roess, Ph.D., professor of global health and ...
A disease outbreak was first reported in Equatorial Guinea on 7 February 2023 and, on 13 February 2023, it was identified as being Marburg virus disease. It was the first time the disease was detected in the country. As of 4 April 2023, there were 14 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases, including ten confirmed deaths from the disease in ...
This is the first-ever case of the Marburg virus disease in West Africa. [107] On August 2, the patient succumbed to the illness. [108] 2022 Ghana: MARV 3 3 100% First time Ghana has had cases of Marburg virus disease [109] [110] 2023 Equatorial Guinea: MARV 17 12 70%
2023 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Equatorial Guinea; 2023 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania This page was last ...
Ravn virus. The genus Marburgvirus is the taxonomic home of Marburg marburgvirus, whose members are the two known marburgviruses, Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV). Both viruses cause Marburg virus disease in humans and nonhuman primates, a form of viral hemorrhagic fever. [1] Both are select agents, [2] World Health Organization Risk ...