Ghana confirms first cases of deadly Marburg virus

Category : International Published on: July 20 2022

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First case of deadly ‘Marburg virus’ found in Ghana, AfricaGhana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola.
It says both patients died recently in hospital in the southern Ashanti region.
This is the second time that Marburg has been identified in West Africa.
There was one confirmed case in Guinea last year, but that outbreak was declared over in September, five weeks after the case was discovered.
The virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads between humans through the transmission of bodily fluids.
The first ever Marburg outbreak was in Germany in 1967 where seven people died.