WHO says at least 8 dead in suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania | Health News

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The 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 Tanzania has killed at least eight people, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

In a statement on Tuesday, the global health agency said a total of nine suspected cases of the high-fatality disease had been reported in two districts of the Kagera region in the country’s northwest.

“We would expect further cases in coming days as disease surveillance improves,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

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