Update (September 20): The World Health Organization declared an end to the Marburg virus outbreak in Ghana last Friday after more than six weeks with no additional cases, VOA reports. On Monday, the Ghana Health Service also declared the outbreak’s end, according to Reuters.
Update (August 2): The WHO announced two new cases of Marburg in Ghana last week, and today the organization announced that one of those cases, a child, has died, Reuters reports. This brings the total number of cases in the country’s outbreak to four and the total number of deaths to three.
Update (July 18): The Institut Pasteur in Senegal confirmed that the two people who died in late June from an Ebola-like virus in Ghana have tested positive for Marburg, reports the World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement issued July 17. The WHO says that more than 90 people who came in contact with ...
