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Ibrahima-Soce Fall, WHO Regional Emergency Director for the Africa region, says, “We are working with health authorities to rapidly implement response measures. Uganda has previously managed Ebola and Marburg outbreaks but international support is urgently required to scale up the response as the overall risk of national and regional spread of this epidemic-prone disease is high.”

Medics Fight Back to Contain Rare Disease

By Abdi Ali and World Health Organization Published October 22, 2017 The World Health Organization (WHO) is working to contain an outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) that has appeared on the on Uganda-Kenya border. At least one person is confirmed to have died of MVD and several hundred people…

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