Congo Virus Not Ebola, Officials Say
<i> Reuters</i>
KINSHASA, Congo —
The virus responsible for dozens of deaths in Congo is not Ebola but Marburg, a related hemorrhagic fever probably transmitted by bats or rats, Congolese and World Health Organization officials said Thursday.
Blood samples taken from the victims, mainly gold miners, were tested in South Africa by virologists, who concluded that the Marburg virus was responsible, Gregory Hartl of WHO said in Geneva.
“It is a virus very closely related to Ebola,” he said.
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