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CNN  —  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending personnel to Africa to help stop outbreaks of Marburg virus disease and is urging travelers to certain countries to take precautions. The CDC is also taking steps to keep infections from spreading to the United States. Equatorial Guinea …

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said the country is at moderate risk of importing Marburg virus following the outbreak of the disease in Equatorial Guinea.   While acknowledging that the likelihood of importation of the virus to Nigeria is high due to the direct flight between …

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that Nigeria is at moderate risk of the importation and impact of the Marburg virus.   Speaking days after Ghanaian authorities announced death of two patients who were diagnosed with the virus, the Director General of NCDC , Dr. Ifedayo …

If confirmed, these would be the first such infections recorded in the country, and only the second in West Africa. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. “The health authorities are on the ground investigating the situation and …