Dar es Salaam: The World Health Organization (WHO) has obtained £200,000 in funding from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Construction Whisper of work (FCDO) to make stronger efforts in fighting the ongoing Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. This collaboration will tremendously toughen the continuing response to the outbreak in the Kagera spot and give a boost to preparedness efforts all the way by 13 diversified high-nervousness areas in the country.
Since President H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan formally declared the outbreak in Biharamulo District in January 2025, WHO has been working tirelessly to provide each technical and operational make stronger. This includes a $3 million investment in the response effort, deploying a nationwide posthaste response group, enhancing outbreak investigation measures, and providing mandatory private protecting equipment (PPE) and guidelines for the local health teams.
The extra funding will make stronger WHO’s ongoing efforts to attend Tanzania in managing the outbreak and will make contributions to the implementation of the country’s National Marburg Response Belief 2025 which goals to curb the virus in the country.
“WHO has been on the grounds with companions ensuring Marburg is curtailed in the earliest that you just’re going to be ready to imagine time. We specific our sincere gratitude to FCDO for the continued make stronger and collaboration, each in the previous Marburg outbreak in 2023 and this new funding addition. This funding won’t most interesting motivate the instant response but can even lend a hand give a boost to health systems in the spot to prevent future outbreaks.” acknowledged Dr. Charles Sagoe Moses, WHO Country Marketing consultant in Tanzania.
The Marburg virus, a extreme viral hemorrhagic fever, is intently connected to the Ebola virus. It is basically transmitted by fruit bats and spreads by the usage of contact with bodily fluids from infected individuals. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle pain, and extreme bleeding, and the disease is all the time fatal. There are currently no current vaccines or antiviral therapies for Marburg.
