Important Takeaways:

• Rwanda, a landlocked country in central Africa, declared an outbreak on Friday and a day later the first six deaths were reported.
• Rwanda says eight people have died so far from the Ebola-like and highly contagious Marburg virus, the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.
• The public has been urged to avoid physical contact to help curb the spread. Some 300 people who came into contact with those confirmed to have the virus have also been identified, and an unspecified number of them have been put in isolation facilities.
• Most of the affected are healthcare workers across six out of 30 districts in the country.
• “Marburg is a rare disease,” Nsanzimana told journalists. “We are intensifying contact tracing and testing to help stop the spread.”
• A person infected with the virus can take between three days and three weeks to show symptoms, he added.
• Separately, Rwanda has so far reported six cases of mpox, a disease caused by a virus related to smallpox but that typically causes milder symptoms.

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