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  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 …