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U.S. ships Marburg vaccines to Rwanda after 11 die in outbreak

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U.S. ships Marburg vaccines to Rwanda after 11 die in outbreak

Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: AP The United States government completed an initial shipment of vaccine doses and therapeutic drugs for Marburg disease to Rwanda on Oct. 4, Thierry Roels, U.S. CDC Country Director in Rwanda told Reuters on Saturday (October 5, 2024). The U.S. government is also working closely with…

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Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

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Rwanda reports 8 deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. | Photo…

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