Uganda:Managing Marburg - How an Oddly Timed Outbreak is Testing Emergency Strategies

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -On Oct.11, a woman died in Chemuron village, Kween District in an Eastern Uganda. She had a fever, headache, and was bleeding from several places. Doctors attending to her had feared the worst and sent her samples for testing. A week later, on Oct.17, experts at Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) confirmed the 50-year old woman had succumbed to a high mortality hemorrhagic fever - Marburg.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news