KAMPALA: Three people have died in south-west Uganda from an outbreak of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, officials said.
There is no vaccine or specific treatment for the disease, which is a severe and fatal infection. The statement comes just two weeks after the east African nation said it was free of the deadly Ebola virus.
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