The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged all travellers going to Guinea and Tanzania to avoid catching the fatal virus by taking necessary precautions. The US CDC has decided to send The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases to contain the outbreaks in Tanzania and Guinea. As on March 22, Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health had confirmed eight more cases of Marburg, bringing the number of confirmed cases to nine since the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever was declared on 13 February.Marburg virus outbreak: Key facts
GeneralThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has urged all travellers going to Guinea and Tanzania to avoid catching the fatal virus by taking necessary precautions. The US CDC has decided to send The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases to contain the outbreaks in Tanzania and Guinea. As on March 22, Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health had confirmed eight more cases of Marburg, bringing the number of confirmed cases to nine since the outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic fever was declared on 13 February.
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