Marburg hemorrhagic fever has killed 11 people in Rwanda, health authorities said, as the East African country continues to investigate the source of an outbreak first traced among patients in health facilities.
There are 36 confirmed cases of the disease that manifests like Ebola, with 25 of them in isolation, according to the Rwandan governmentβs latest update. Rwanda declared the outbreak on Sept. 27 and reported six deaths a day later. Authorities said at the time that the first cases had been found among patients in health facilities and that an investigation was underway to determine the source of the outbreak.
German federal police block several tracks at Hamburg Central Station: Two travelers had apparently been infected with the deadly Marburg virus, BILD reports.
