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Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases

Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases

EIGHT new confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to nine and probable cases to 20 since the outbreak of the deadly disease similar to Ebola was declared in February. Twenty deaths have been reported. Of the eight new cases, two were reported from the Central African country's Kie-Ntem province, four from the Litoral province and two from Centre-Sur province, the WHO said in a statement. The areas reporting cases are about 150 kilometres (93 miles) apart, suggesting a wider transmission of the virus, the…
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