Two cases of Ebola-like Marburg virus confirmed in Ghana

The World

Two people in Ghana have died from what is now confirmed to be the highly infectious Marburg virus. The deaths from the Ebola-related virus were confirmed by the World Health Organization on Sunday. The World’s host Marco Werman spoke to Dr. Colleen Kraft, an infectious disease physician at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, about what concern there is about this virus. 

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