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Tanzania confirms outbreak of Marburg virus

Date: Jan 20, 2025

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan this Monday confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg virus in the east African country, with one confirmed case so far.

"Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg virus," she said at a press conference that was also attended by World Health Organisation Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Dodoma, a town in the centre of the country.

--Reuters--

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