Angola: Health officials identify Marburg virus, 96 dead

A deadly hemorrhagic fever which has claimed the lives of 96 people, mainly children, in Angola's northern Uige province has been identified as the rare Marburg virus, officials from the Ministry of Health and World Health Organisation (WHO) said late on Tuesday. The illness, characterised by high fever, severe headaches, vomiting and diarrhoea, was first spotted in Uige and is from the same family as the deadly Ebola virus.