Families Wail as UN Checks Angola's Marburg Dead (Reuters)


Reuters - As epidemiologist Sylvia Briand
boots up to take samples from a prospective victim of the
deadly Marburg virus in a cramped Angolan slum, wailing family
and neighbors stand by in fear, grief and fascination.
Identifying cases of the Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever is seen
as key to controlling an outbreak that has killed more than 230
people in this southern African country and which the U.N.
World Health Organization says is not yet contained.

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