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Daily Mirror
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Rachel Hagan

Marburg virus: Fears over new outbreak after 2 people killed by Ebola-like disease

Two people have been killed by an extremely contagious virus similar to Ebola in Ghana.

Health chiefs said a lab had returned positive Marburg virus results from two men, aged 26 and 51, who died last month.

Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever that is similar to the more well-known Ebola virus but with a much higher death rate at a lethal 88 per cent.

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