Atravel advisory has been issued mandating that travellers have their body temperature checked at all points of entry ...

DAR ES SALAAM: IN a race that could redefine healthcare in Africa, Prof. Mohamed Yakub Janabi has emerged as a frontrunner ...

IN recent years, Tanzania has been put to test to address the various challenges one being the emerging deadly pandemics such as the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Ebola and of course the most recent ...

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Marburg virus belongs to the genus Marburgvirus in the family Filoviridae and causes a severe hemorrhagic fever, known as Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), in both humans and nonhuman primates.

Since it was first identified in 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) says there have been a total of 2,618 confirmed ...

Measles is caused by a highly contagious virus that’s airborne and spreads easily when an infected person breathes, sneezes or coughs. It is preventable through vaccines, and has been considered ...

Without US funding, there has been immediate disruption to controlling the mpox outbreak. Now is the time for global health ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from ...