Marburg Outbreak Kills 174 in Angola
The worst-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus has killed 174 people in Angola, mainly children under 5, and is spreading, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The U.N. agency said a first case of the incurable disease had been found in Cuanza Sul, the sixth province in the northwest to be hit. Two deaths have been confirmed from Marburg in Luanda, a teeming capital of 4 million people, where six more cases are being investigated. The outbreak has surpassed the previous record of 123 deaths in Congo from 1998 to 2000.
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