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WHO declares highly-infectious Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana

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The World Health Organization has declared Ghana‘s first outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease after labs confirmed the infections in two cases announced earlier this month.

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, WHO said. Read more: About 25 million children worldwide missed routine vaccinations due to COVID-19: UN A preliminary analysis of samples from two patients from Ghana’s southern Ashanti region – both of whom died and were unrelated – turned up positive, but were forwarded for full confirmation to the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal.

That U.N. health agency lab corroborated the results from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana, WHO said in a statement Sunday.

The first case was a 26-year-old male who checked into a hospital on June 26 and died on June 27. The second was a 51 -year-old male who went to the hospital on June 28 and died the same day, WHO said, adding that both men sought treatment at the same hospital. “Health authorities have responded swiftly, getting a head start preparing for a possible outbreak,” said WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr.

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