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- Two suspected cases of Marburg virus disease were reported in Ghana recently.
- The Marburg Virus disease is an infectious haemorrhagic fever.
- It belongs to same family as Ebola.
- The virus is transmitted to people via fruit bats.
- People to people transmission also takes place.
- It spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids of infected person or surfaces.
- It has an incubation period of 2-21 days.
- This disease is potentially very harmful and deadly.
- Fatality rates in previous outbreaks have ranged from 24% to 88%.
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