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Rwanda begins Marburg vaccinations to curb deadly outbreak

BY REUTERS Rwanda said on Sunday it had begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to try to combat an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease in the east African country, where it has so far killed 12 people. “The vaccination is starting today immediately,” Health Minister Sabin Nsanzimana said at a news conference in the capital Kigali. He said the vaccinations would focus on those “most at risk, most exposed healthcare workers working in treatment centres, in the hospitals, in ICU, in emergency, but also the close contacts of the confirmed cases.” The country has already received shipments of the vaccines including from the Sabin Vaccine Institute. Rwanda’s first outbreak of the viral hemorrhagic fever was detected in late […] The post Rwanda begins Marburg vaccinations to curb deadly outbreak first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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