Rwanda is at risk of attack by a deadly Marburg disease which has been confirmed in the Ugandan district of Kabale.
Five Ugandans have already succumbed to the deadly virus.
Kabale district of Uganda Borders Rwanda. Its also where Katuna Border crossing is located….a major interuction point between Rwanda and Uganda on a daily basis.
Ugandan media has reported that in Kabale District, four members of the same family reportedly died of Marburg disease.
It has also been reported that A case of yellow fever was confirmed in the northern district of Agago.
Uganda health officials have confirmed an outbreak of deadly yellow fever, Marburg and Hepatitis B.
Marburg virus (MARV) causes severe disease in humans and nonhuman primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever.
Marburg virus was first recognized in 1967, when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
The first people infected had been exposed to African green monkeys or their tissues. In Marburg, the monkeys had been imported for research and to prepare polio vaccine.
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