Two outbreaks of the virus have been detected in Africa, with nine in Equatorial Guinea and a further eight, including five deaths, in Tanzania.
Equatorial Guinea has confirmed another eight cases of the"highly virulent” Marburg virus.
Margburg virus causes Ebola-like symptoms including a deadly haemorrhagic fever, which can result in people bleeding to death.The new diagnoses bring the country's total number of cases to nine since the outbreak was declared in mid-February, the World Health Organization said. There are two known current outbreaks of Marburg on the continent with another on the east African country of Tanzania, which this week announced eight cases of Marburg, including five deaths."Our pathogen genomics team will sequence samples from both places ... and see if there is a relationship between the current two outbreaks," the acting director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ahmed Ogwell, told journalists on Thursday.
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