--- title: Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time description: Five of the eight people in Tanzania who contracted the highly virulent disease have died, the World Health Organization said. canonical: https://time.com/6265029/marburg-virus-spreads-tanzania/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-03-22T13:17:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T15:37:10.559Z article:section: Health og:title: Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time og:description: Five of the eight people who contracted the highly virulent disease have died, the World Health Organization said og:url: https://time.com/6265029/marburg-virus-spreads-tanzania/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34f2ef74374483a6/698a3b52cabb1d967de513d6/marburg-virus.jpg?branch=production&width=982&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 982 og:image:height: 552 og:image:alt: Marburg-virus-particles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time twitter:description: Five of the eight people who contracted the highly virulent disease have died, the World Health Organization said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt34f2ef74374483a6/698a3b52cabb1d967de513d6/marburg-virus.jpg?branch=production&width=982&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time > Sponsored content. 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Five of the eight cases in Tanzania’s northwest Kagera region have died and another 161 contacts have been identified and are being monitored, the WHO said. Tanzania is the second African country this year to report its first Marburg outbreak after Equatorial Guinea in February detected the illness. Eleven deaths there are suspected to have been caused by the virus, which belongs to the same family as the one that causes [Ebola](https://time.com/4766624/next-global-security/). In July of last year, Ghana announced its first outbreak. **Read More**: [_What Is Marburg Virus?_](https://time.com/5013603/what-is-marburg-virus/) A WHO risk assessment in September showed that Tanzania is at high to very high risk for infectious disease outbreaks as its borders span several countries, including the African Great Lakes region. Still, Tanzania has recently had to respond to other health emergencies including cholera and dengue and the systems put in place to handle these will help, said Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO’s regional director for Africa. Marburg has a fatality rate as high as 88%. 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