There are no vaccines for the illness, which can have up to an 88 percent death rate.
, the World Health Organization announced Monday. At least nine people in the nation’s western Kie Ntem Province have died from the illness, preliminary tests show. Marburg is an extremely dangerous illness for which no vaccines or antiviral treatments exist.
The highly infectious illness, which is in the same family as the virus which causes, similarly triggers hemorrhagic fever and can have a death rate as high as 88 percent, according to WHO. Illness begins suddenly and includes symptoms like high fever and severe headache before hemorrhagic symptoms appear in many patients within seven days.
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