Dar es Salaam. Tanzania today declared the end of the Marburg Virus Disease outbreak which was confirmed just over two months ago in the north-western Kagera region, said the World Health Organisation. It was the country’s first outbreak of...
The Government of Tanzania has issued a travel advisory requiring all travelers from Kagera region to fill a surveillance form online, undergo body temperature checks at points of entry and adhere to infection prevention and control measures.
The advisory follows...
Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)’s Acting Director Dr.Ahmed Ogwell Ouma has reminded the African continent to strengthen health security in the wake of an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease(MVD) in Tanzania—the first ever outbreak of...
The World Health Organisations (WHO) is deploying an emergency team to Kagera region in Tanzania to carry out further epidemiological investigations following an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD)—the first ever outbreak of the viral disease in the country.
Dr.Matshidiso...
The Ministry of Health in Tanzania has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Lake Zone district of Bukoba. It is the first ever outbreak of this viral disease in the country.
This comes about 4 days...
Reports of a possibly contagious disease have emerged in the Kagera region of Tanzania, where five people have died out of the seven who developed symptoms of fever, vomiting, bleeding from various body openings and kidney failure.
Chief Medical Officer...
Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, less than four months after the first case was confirmed in the country’s central Mubende district on 20 September 2022.
“Uganda put a swift end to...
A team of experts tasked by the Ministry of Health a week ago to investigate an outbreak of flu in Dar es Salaam has detected Influenza Type A virus in 13% of the samples collected from children who had...
A mass vaccination drive against polio in Southern Africa started Monday, targeting 23 million children under the age of five in the countries of Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique.
The World Health Organization’s Country office in Tanzania expressed readiness...
Tanzania’s Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu has urged the public to take precautions against yellow fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that causes acute illness in patients.
This comes after the World Health Organisation’s country office in Tanzania informed the ministry...