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Kenya: Marburg Team Sent to Uganda Border
The Star, 14 October 2014
HEALTH officials in Turkana have told residents that they are monitoring the Kenya- Uganda border for Marburg fever after a medic died in the neigbouring country. Read more »
Uganda Alert After Marburg Death
The government has issued assembled response teams and has quarantined 80 people after one person died of the disease that exhibits similar symptoms to the Ebola virus.
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Rwanda: Marburg Fever Cases in Uganda
New Times, 13 October 2014
The World Health Organisation (WHO) last week warned that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone where 70 per cent of people are… Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Confirms Death of One Man Infected By Ebola-Like Marburg Virus
DW, 6 October 2014
A hospital technician in Kampala has died of a virus called Marburg, which is similar to Ebola. The Ugandan government has mobilized its health teams. Read more »
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Rwanda: Govt On High Alert As Marburg Virus Is Reported in Uganda
New Times, 6 October 2014
Following reports of an outbreak of the deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever in neighbouring Uganda, officials from the Ministry of Health yesterday said they are going to monitor the… Read more »
InFocus
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Minister for Health Dr. Christine Ondoa has declared Kabale and Ibanda districts free of the Marburg epidemic. Read more »
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The government together with Centre for Disease Control (CDC), have set up a temporary virus research institute at Ibanda and a diagnostic laboratory at Kabale Referral Hospital in ... Read more »
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The hemorrhagic virus has claimed seven lives since experts first reported the outbreak in western Uganda. The health ministry has requested 2.3 billion shillings for a Marburg ... Read more »
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Efforts are being intensified to ensure that the outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly Marburg virus doesn't spread to parts of Rwanda that lie on the border of Uganda ... Read more »
