Ghana Declares End Of Marburg Virus Outbreak – WHO

Ghana on Friday declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak, a haemorrhagic fever almost as deadly as Ebola, two months after recording three cases, two of them fatal, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced. "Ghana's Ministry of Health has declared the end of the epidemic after no cases were recorded for 42 days," the WHO announced in a statement. "Although the country has no experience with the virus, Ghana's response has been swift and robust," Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, was quoted as saying in the statement. This was the first time the haemorrhagic fever…