Rwanda reports six deaths from a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana confirmed the fatalities and said those infected were primarily health workers.
KIGALI — Six people have been killed in Rwanda in an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola , the country's health ministry said on Saturday.The highly virulent microbe causes severe fever, often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure.Some 20 patients were being treated for the illness, Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana told local media.
The suspected natural source of the Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, which carries the pathogen but does not fall sick from it.The virus takes its name from the German city of Marburg, where it was first identified in 1967 in a lab where workers had been in contact with infected green monkeys imported from Uganda.The animals can pass the virus to primates in close proximity, including humans, and human-to-human transmission then occurs through contact with blood or other body fluids.
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