Africa's health agency has announced nine people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease.
It comes after the World Health Organisation announced there were eight suspected deaths earlier this month, which had warned that "more cases" were likely to be identified.
Since the country confirmed the outbreak, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola.
According to the Africa Centre for Disease Control Centre (CDC), nine have died – reflecting the virus's 90 per cent mortality rate. The cases were reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania, in the north of the country.
Ngashi Ngongo, professor of epidemiology at the University of Lubumbashi, said that the figures reflected "the very high case fatality of Marburg".
Dr Ngongo added: "We are doing everything we can with WHO and all the partners."
He said that teams, including members who had already countered a recent outbreak in neighbouring country, were already "on the ground."
Dr Ngongo also told an online briefing: "There have been a total of 31 tests that have been conducted, two confirmed, and 29 I think, that are negative,"
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Last month, the WHO declared the end of a three-month Marburg outbreak in Rwanda which killed 15 people.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, from the WHO, previously said the global risk from Tanzania's current outbreak was "low".
"Even though there is no approved treatment or vaccines, outbreaks can be stopped quickly," he said.
"WHO advises against restrictions. Now is the time for collaboration."
It comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the WHO, marking the second time the Republican has ordered the US be pulled out of the agency.
Trump was critical of how the international body handled Covid-19 and began the process of pulling out from the Geneva-based institution during the pandemic, a decision former President Joe Biden reversed upon entering office on 2021.
The 47th President's order said the US was withdrawing "due to the organization's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states".
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It comes after the World Health Organisation announced there were eight suspected deaths earlier this month, which had warned that "more cases" were likely to be identified.
Since the country confirmed the outbreak, ten people have tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola.
According to the Africa Centre for Disease Control Centre (CDC), nine have died – reflecting the virus's 90 per cent mortality rate. The cases were reported in the Kagera region of Tanzania, in the north of the country.
Ngashi Ngongo, professor of epidemiology at the University of Lubumbashi, said that the figures reflected "the very high case fatality of Marburg".
Dr Ngongo added: "We are doing everything we can with WHO and all the partners."
He said that teams, including members who had already countered a recent outbreak in neighbouring country, were already "on the ground."
Dr Ngongo also told an online briefing: "There have been a total of 31 tests that have been conducted, two confirmed, and 29 I think, that are negative,"
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Last month, the WHO declared the end of a three-month Marburg outbreak in Rwanda which killed 15 people.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, from the WHO, previously said the global risk from Tanzania's current outbreak was "low".
"Even though there is no approved treatment or vaccines, outbreaks can be stopped quickly," he said.
"WHO advises against restrictions. Now is the time for collaboration."
It comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the WHO, marking the second time the Republican has ordered the US be pulled out of the agency.
Trump was critical of how the international body handled Covid-19 and began the process of pulling out from the Geneva-based institution during the pandemic, a decision former President Joe Biden reversed upon entering office on 2021.
The 47th President's order said the US was withdrawing "due to the organization's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states".
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