Fears laboratory containing deadly Ebola ‘at risk’ amid fierce fighting in Congo’s Goma
4"They experienced multi-organ failure and succumbed to the illness at Mulago National Referral Hospital on January 29," Uganda’s health ministry said.Forty-four people, including 30 health workers, have been identified for contact tracing.
The Sudan strain is the most contagious but least deadly variant of the Ebola virus, though it still kills around half of those it infects.The 7 signs of ‘little-known virus’ on the rise - and 6 ways to prevent it First case of deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus with a fatality rate as high as 88pc detected in Guinea, West Africa
The last outbreak took place in 2022, in Uganda and was declared over in January 2023 after it claimed the lives of 55 people.Ngashi Ngongo, from Africa's Centre for Disease Control Centre told an online briefing that the figures highlighted "the very high case fatality of Marburg".It comes a month after WHO declared the end of a three-month Marburg outbreak in Rwanda, which killed 15 people.
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