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Rwanda’s Marburg virus outbreak is “controlled,” according to Africa’s top public health chief, who said he was expecting to see the country come “out of this outbreak very soon”. The Ebola-like haemorrhagic fever has killed 13 people since the outbreak was first declared in the East African country on September 27. Jean Kaseya of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the risk of Marburg spreading out of Rwanda is almost zero and praised the country for what he said was a strong response to the outbreak by a range of government officials. “The mechanism they put in place e…

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