Marburg is a rare but severe viral haemorrhagic fever, almost as deadly as the more well-known Ebola virus disease; unlike with Ebola, there are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for Marburg, according to the WHO. Read more:
Blood samples taken from two patients in the southern Ashanti region were sent for testing to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana's capital, Accra, with preliminary results suggesting earlier this month that their illness was due to Marburg.
Ghana's first case was a 26-year-old man who was hospitalized on June 26 and died the next day, officials said. The second case was a 51-year-old man who sought treatment at the same hospital on June 28 and died later that day. Both patients, who were unrelated, experienced similar symptoms, including diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting, the WHO said in a press release Sunday.
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