The Pigeon Express
Ghana 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. Their samples came back positive earlier this month and have now been verified by a laboratory […]
Health officials in Guinea are monitoring 155 people they fear may have caught a deadly Ebola-like disease. One man has already died from Marburg virus, prompting a desperate scramble to find everyone he came into contact with. All of the people he met have now been traced and told to self-isolate. They are also being […]