{"id":8500,"date":"2025-01-14T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2025-01-14T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:00:22","slug":"eight-dead-in-suspected-marburg-outbreak-in-tanzania-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/14\/eight-dead-in-suspected-marburg-outbreak-in-tanzania-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight dead in suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humenglish.com\/world\/eight-dead-in-suspected-marburg-outbreak-in-tanzania-who\/\">HUM<\/a> The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people, warning that the risk of further spread in the country and region was \u201chigh\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations health agency said it had informed its member states on Monday of \u201can outbreak of suspected Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) in the Kagera region\u201d of Tanzania. \u201cWe are aware of nine cases so far, including eight people who have died. We would expect further cases in coming days as disease surveillance improves,\u201d World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWHO has offered its full assistance to the government of Tanzania, and to affected communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humenglish.com\/world\/eight-dead-in-suspected-marburg-outbreak-in-tanzania-who\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HUM The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday that a suspected outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people, warning that the risk of further spread in the country and region was \u201chigh\u201d. The United Nations health agency said it had informed its member states on Monday of \u201can outbreak of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-marburg-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}