DAKAR, March 23 — Eight new confirmed cases of Marburg disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organisation said today.
Of the eight new cases, two were reported from the Central African country’s Kie-Ntem province, four from the Litoral province and two from Centre-Sur province, the WHO said in a statement. “The confirmation of these new cases is a critical signal to scale up response efforts to quickly stop the chain of transmission,” WHO Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti said in the statement.
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