<h4>Highly Infectious Virus, Similar To Ebola, Breaks Out In Ghana, Two Die</h4>
<p>OpenLife Nigeria reports that two people in Ghana who later died tested positive for Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.</p>
<p>Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive, but those results must be confirmed by a laboratory in Senegal for the cases to be considered confirmed, the WHO said in a statement.</p>
<p>The two patients in the southern Ashanti region both had symptoms including diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting, before dying in hospital, the statement said.</p>
<p>If the cases are confirmed, this would be only the second outbreak of Marburg in West Africa.<br />
The first ever case of the virus was detected last year in Guinea, with no further cases identified.</p>
<p>&#8220;Preparations for a possible outbreak response are being set up swiftly as further investigations are underway,&#8221; the WHO said.</p>
<p>There have been a dozen major Marburg outbreaks since 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks depending on the virus strain and case management, according to the WHO.</p>
<p><strong>Source: Reuters</strong></p>

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