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Equatorial Guinea Confirms First Outbreak of Deadly Marburg Virus Disease

ALARMING

There are no vaccines for the illness, which can have up to an 88 percent death rate.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

World Health Organisation officials examine the home of a suspected Marburg virus victim in the northern Angolan town of Uige, April 19, 2005.
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Dan Ladden-Hall

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