Xinhua – English Not good news. When it starts to kill the doctors, then there is a problem!

LUANDA, March 25 (Xinhuanet) — The epidemic of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in the Angolan northern province of Uige has claimed 106 lives, including hospital personnel, according to local press reports on Friday.

Uige provincial Governor Antonio Bento Kangulo was quoted as saying on Thursday that the latest fatalities from the highly contagious disease included two nurses at Uige Central Hospital.

Two doctors, one Angolan, the other Vietnamese, had also been diagnosed with the disease, Governor Kangulo said.

A delegation from the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization left Luanda for Uige on Thursday morning to assess the situation and measures would be undertaken to combat the epidemic.



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