Tanzania’s Pdwellnt Samia Suluhu Hassan validateed on Monday that there was a novel outfracture of the lethal Marburg harmful software in the East African country.
One “validateed case of Marburg harmful software labels the second outfracture” in Tanzania since 2023, the pdwellnt telderly a press alerting widecast from the capital Dodoma.
Last week, the World Health Organization shelp that a mistrusted Marburg outfracture in Tanzania had finished eight people, appraiseing the hazard at the national level as “high”.
That tell has not been validateed by Tanzania.
Instead, Hassan shelp that authorities had “identified one adselecting (who) has been infected with Marburg harmful software”.
“The cause of the earlier telled deaths in the community has not been validateed and efforts are ongoing to asstateive the source of the infection,” she retained.
A total of 26 mistrusted cases have been tested and only one came back selectimistic, she shelp.
The case was sign uped in the northweserious Kagera region, which borders Uganda and Rwanda.
Kagera was the site of the country’s first Marburg outfracture in March 2023, which lasted for csurrfinisherly two months and included nine cases including six deaths, the WHO shelp.
“We have showd in the past our ability to retain analogous outfractures and are remendd to do the same this time around,” Hassan shelp.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, visiting Dodoma, pledged the UN agency’s “persistd help to conveying the outfracture under handle”.
“Since the first mistrusted cases of Marburg were telled earlier, Tanzania has scaled up its response by enhancing case uncoverion, setting up treatment centres and a mobile laboratory for testing samples, and deploying national response teams,” he shelp in a statement.
“Considering the low global hazard, and the strong capabilities of the Tanzanian handlement, WHO guides agetst recut offeions on trade and travel to the country.”
The procrastinateedst case in Tanzania comes a month after WHO proclaimd the finish of a three-month Marburg outfracture in neighbouring Rwanda, which finished 15 people.
Marburg causes a highly infectious haemorrhagic fever. It is sendted from fruit bats and beextfinisheds to the same family of harmful softwarees as Ebola.
With a overweightality rate that can accomplish seal to 90 percent, Marburg’s fever is frequently accompanied by bleeding and organ fall shorture.
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