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East Africa: WHO Releases $500,000 to Contain Plague, Marburg
East African, 28 October 2017
Kenya and Tanzania are among counties identified by the World Health Organisation as likely hotspots for the plague that has ravaged Madagascar and a recent Marburg virus disease… Read more »
WHO Gives U.S.$500,000 to Contain Plague, Marburg in East Africa
Kenya and Tanzania are among counties identified by the World Health Organisation as likely hotspots - both for the plague that has ravaged Madagascar and for a recent Marburg virus disease outbreak in eastern Uganda. So serious is the prospect of the Marburg virus spreading across the border to Kenya that the WHO has released $500,000 to contain the epidemic.
A member of the World Health Organisation takes an oral sample from a patient suspected of having Marburg haemorrhagic fever.
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