With the fatality rate of 8% it is the same virus family as Ebola. The main carrier is from fruit bats which spreads to humans then through the contact of bodily fluids of infected individuals, it spreads to others.

Tanzania has denied a Marburg virus outbreak following WHO reports confirming all suspected cases have tested negative Read Full Article at RTcom

A suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has been linked to nine cases and eight deaths, according to WHO.

Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health Organization (WHO) said at least eight people in the northwest were believed to have died from it.