Uganda: UN Health Agency Working With Authorities to Combat Marburg Outbreak

22 October 2012

The United Nations health agency is working with the Government of Uganda to control an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever in the African country's western district of Kabale.

On its global alert and response webpage, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) stated yesterday that it had deployed a team of epidemiologists and logisticians to support Uganda's Ministry of Health after blood samples from three cases tested positive for the potentially fatal disease.

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