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An outbreak of the Marburg virus disease in Ghana is officially over as the nation has not recorded any new cases in at least 42 days.
The West African nation "contained the virus and met all the protocols,” Francis Chisaka Kasolo, the World Health Organization’s country representative, told reporters in the capital, Accra, on Friday.
Authorities announced the outbreak of the highly infectious viral hemorrhagic disease in July and confirmed three cases, which resulted in two deaths.
There have been a dozen major Marburg outbreaks since 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks depending on the virus strain and case management, according to the WHO.
