However, on Thursday last week, Minister for Health, Jenista Mhagma, announced that Tanzania is now free from Marburg virus ...

He's talking about mpox, a virus that causes painful blisters and can be fatal. For much of the world, mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — seems like a virus from a few years ago. There was a ...

The initial lack of screening at airports and ineffective quarantine measures allowed the virus to spread unchecked. Mpox may not have the same level of transmissibility, but it is still a ...