Guinea Confirms First Marburg Fever Case After Beating Ebola
- This is West Africa’s first-ever case of the hemorrhagic fever
- Guinean authorities have experience containing similar disease
Anti-ebola vaccinations are administered at a hospital in N'zerekore, Guinea, in February.
Photographer: Carol Valade/AFP/Getty Images
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Guinea has reported its first-ever case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a close cousin to the Ebola virus, according to its government and the World Health Organization.
Testing came back positive for the rare disease after samples were sent to neighboring Senegal’s Institut Pasteur last week, Sory Keira, a spokesman for Guinea’s National Health Security Agency, said by phone Monday. The samples were taken from the suspected case on Aug. 5 in the southern district of Gueckedou.