Africa is currently under the threat of a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one responsible for Ebola virus.

This infection called Marburg virus has already been recorded in a city called Turkana along the Kenya-Uganda border in East Africa.

Mortality rate of the Marburg virus, which is in the same Filoviridae family as Ebola, has a case fatality ratio of up to 88 per cent. Marburg, like other filoviruses, can be spread by contact with blood, bodily fluids or tissues or contact with contaminated objects.

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