'Ebola-like' Marburg virus cases detected in Ghana, WHO declares outbreak in country - India TV News


7/17/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
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Marburg Virus in Ghana: The disease, a very infectious hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola, is spread to people by fruit bats and transmitted among people through direct contact with bodily fluids of infected people and surfaces

  • The World Health Organization has declared Ghana's first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus.
  • Labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.
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