Tanzania confirms outbreak of highly infectious Ebola-like virus - Neighbouring Rwanda reported 15 deaths and 66 cases in last year’s outbreak of Marburg

Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan held discussions with the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Dodoma on Monday.

Tanzania’s president says one sample from a remote northern part of the country has tested positive for Marburg disease.

President Donald Trump has used one of the flurry of executive actions that he issued on his first day back in the White House to begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization for the second time in less than five years.

President Trump has signed an executive order​ beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, a process that requires a one-year notice period as set out in a 1948 Joint Resolution of Congress.

Tanzania’s health minister denied there was an outbreak in the country saying no one had tested positive for the viral infection

President Trump issued an executive order Monday night withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization.   The U.S. has historically been the largest funder of the Geneva-based

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan confirmed on Monday that there was a new outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in the East African country.