The Marburg virus has been described by the WHO as a family of the Ebola virus which has a fatality rate of 88 per cent.
On Sunday, 17 July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the outbreak of the Marburg virus after two people had tested positive and died from the virus in Ghana. The Marburg virus, according to the WHO, is in the same family as the Ebola virus. Although the organization has reported that the virus originated from African green monkeys imported from Uganda, the Marburg virus was first identified in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany in 1967.
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