Monday, October 22, 2012

Marburg Virus Reaches Uganda's Capital Kampala

From the Huffington Post:
October 22, 2012
Excerpt:

"We have one case confirmed in Mulago Hospital while the number of the dead is now five," Rukia Nakamatte, spokesperson for the ministry of health told Reuters on Monday.

"Thirty -four contacts (people are) being monitored and an isolation facility is being set up."

A health official told Reuters on Monday that the woman at Mulago, the country's largest referral hospital, had travelled to Kampala about five days ago and is a member of a family in Kabale which lost three people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/marburg-virus-uganda_n_2001813.html?utm_hp_ref=world

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