(250121) — DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 21, 2025 (Xinhua) — World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (L) and President of the United Republic of Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan hold a joint news conference in the Tanzanian capital of Dodoma, Jan. 20, 2025. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed the country’s second outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in two years.
Speaking at a joint news conference with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Hassan said that laboratory tests conducted at the Kabaile mobile laboratory in the northwestern Kagera region and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam identified one person in Biharamulo District as infected with MVD. (Tanzania State House/Handout via Xinhua)
