Rwandan health authorities are carrying out contact tracing for hundreds of people to prevent further spread of the disease in the country and the wider region. Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said the country is grappling with the viral hemorrhagic fever at the same time as dealing with mpox.
"We are going to stop this before it spreads," he said during an online briefing, noting that they are collaborating with various international partners, including the Africa Centres for Disease Control which he said has already dispatched a team to beef up the Rwanda n capacity.
Rwandan health authorities are struggling to contain the outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, which has claimed the lives of about a dozen people. Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana… American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, on Thursday, October 3, announced that it will donate about 5,000 vials of its antiviral drug Remdesivir for emergency use in…
Rwanda is set to get thousands of doses of an antivirus therapeutic called Remdesivir, which is produced by the American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, officials said…
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