Uganda on high alert following suspected Marburg virus disease outbreak in neighboring Tanzania

Kampala, Jan 15 (IANS) Uganda is on high alert following a suspected Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in neighboring Tanzania that has left eight people dead, a health official said here Wednesday. Henry Kyobe Bosa, incident commander at Uganda’s Ministry of Health, told Xinhua news agency over the telephone that health authorities have heightened surveillance […]