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4:58 CAT | 20 Jan 2025
FILE - Coloured visualisation of Marburg virus electron microscopy photo.[File photo: Reuters]
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday confirmed an outbreak of the Marburg virus in the east African country, with one confirmed case so far.
“Laboratory tests conducted at Kabaile Mobile Laboratory in Kagera and later confirmed in Dar es Salaam, identified one patient as being infected by Marburg virus,” she said at a press conference that was also attended by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in Dodoma, a town in the country’s north.
Source: Reuters
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