Dar es Salaam:  The World Well being Group (WHO) has obtained £200,000 in funding from the UK’s International, Commonwealth, and Improvement Workplace (FCDO) to help efforts in preventing the continuing Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. This collaboration will considerably improve the persevering with response to the outbreak within the Kagera area and strengthen preparedness efforts throughout 13 different high-risk areas within the nation.

Since President H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan formally declared the outbreak in Biharamulo District in January 2025, WHO has been working tirelessly to offer each technical and operational help. This features a $3 million funding within the response effort, deploying a nationwide fast response group, enhancing outbreak investigation measures, and offering important private protecting gear (PPE) and tips for the native well being groups.

The extra funding will help WHO’s ongoing efforts to help Tanzania in managing the outbreak and can contribute to the implementation of the nation’s Nationwide Marburg Response Plan 2025 which goals to curb the virus within the nation.

“WHO has been on the grounds with companions making certain Marburg is curtailed within the earliest attainable time. We categorical our honest gratitude to FCDO for the continued help and collaboration, each previously Marburg outbreak in 2023 and this present funding addition. This funding won’t solely help the speedy response however can even assist strengthen well being methods within the area to forestall future outbreaks.” stated Dr. Charles Sagoe Moses, WHO Nation Consultant in Tanzania.

The Marburg virus, a extreme viral hemorrhagic fever, is carefully associated to the Ebola virus. It’s primarily transmitted by means of fruit bats and spreads through contact with bodily fluids from contaminated people. Signs embrace fever, headache, muscle ache, and extreme bleeding, and the illness is commonly deadly. There are at the moment no accredited vaccines or antiviral remedies for Marburg.