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| 210 people die of Marburg virus in Angola |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-13 21:53:26 |
LUANDA, April 13 (Xinhuanet) -- The death toll from the outbreak of Marburg virus in Angola has climbed to 210 after seven more deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the Angolan Health Ministry on Wednesday.
Like Ebola, which also has hit Africa, Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids and can kill rapidly. There is no vaccine.
So far, the WHO, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an international humanitarian group, Doctors Without Borders, have deployed teams in Uige to combat the virus.
Marburg gets its name from a German town where it was first reported in the 1960s after researchers there had contracted the disease from monkeys imported from Africa.
In the last known outbreak of Marburg, 123 people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1998 and 2000. Enditem |
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