"Marburg virus is known to be associated with a very high mortality rate, if not the first, maybe the second deadliest virus that is so far known in terms of affecting people's body and destroying the immune response and leading to mortality," says Rwanda's minister of health Sabin Nsanzimana. He describes the high proportion of cases among health care workers as an unfortunate reality. They're the first to be affected by such diseases because they face sick people from different places, different backgrounds.
Rwanda's government and Africa CDC are implementing rigorous testing, contact tracing and quarantine measures to contain the outbreak. However, there's a pressing need for more rapid diagnostic tools.
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