WHO: Ghana 'may' have contained Marburg virus
The World Health Organization (WHO) says Ghana may have contained a recent outbreak of the highly infectious Marburg virus disease following the deaths of two confirmed cases in the southern Ashanti region.
Dr Francis Kasolo is the Country Representative for WHO Ghana. He told Newsday that over 95 close contacts of the two dead are being monitored for the virus, which causes symptoms including diarrhoea, fever, nausea, and vomiting. He said: 鈥淧reliminary investigations鈥uggest that this episode may not have spread鈥owever鈥e鈥檒l count-down for at least 42 days before we can comfortably say that there hasn鈥檛 been any spread.鈥�
(Picture: Electron Micrograph Of The Marburg Virus, which was first recognised in 1967. Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images.)
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