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A person with the deadly disease has appeared in Africa
Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea, Tanzania and Gabon has killed more than 500 people and infected over 2,000 others. Symptoms of the virus take anywhere from a few days to three weeks to develop and it can spread via body fluids of infected person or corpse. The virus is part of the same family…
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The vaccine doesn’t work against the outbreak of the disease.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a three-week lockdown in Mubende and Kassanda districts of the country after the discovery of a new strain of Ebola in Uganda. Museveni said that the country was seeing an “explosive rise” of the virus, and that there was a need to impose a lockdown in the areas. At…