Angola: Traditional healers 'helping Marburg virus spread'
27.04.2005
Researchers trying to battle the outbreak of deadly Marburg virus in Angola claim that traditional healers' practices could be helping the virus spread. They believe that healers are re-using syringes and needles to inject patients. This, say the researchers, could explain why the virus is still killing an average of three people a day, one month after the outbreak was identified.