Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of ... The WHO assessed the risk of the Marburg virus spreading in the region as high due to Kagera's strategic location as a transit hub ...

At least eight people in Tanzania have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal Marburg virus ... surveillance improves,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a social media post.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ... Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit ...

There have been seven directors-general of the World Health Organization since my first WHO job in India 50 years ago. They ...