Uganda: Halt Marburg in Its Tracks to Save Lives

24 October 2017
editorial

The Health ministry has faced a few challenges in dealing with the latest epidemic to hit the country - Marburg disease.

After the news broke that two residents of Kween District, Catherine Chemayek and Alfred Cherop, had died from of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, the Ministry of Health dispatched teams to the district to sensitise residents as well as epidemiologists and laboratory technologists.

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