Medical Express Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late Tuesday. With a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure.
Some 29 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease since the start of the outbreak on September 27, Rwanda’s health ministry said in an update.
Nineteen of them were in isolation and receiving treatment across the country.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that most of the cases were of health care workers and more than 290 contacts had been traced.