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WHO: Tanzania declares end of deadly Marburg Virus outbreak

World Health Organization officials examine the home of a suspected Marburg virus victim in Uige, Angola, April 19, 2005. [Reuters]

Tanzania has declared the end of a deadly outbreak of the Marburg virus, more than two months after it was first confirmed, the World Health Organization said.

Nine cases - eight confirmed and one probable - and six deaths were recorded in the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever in the northwestern region of Kagera, the WHO said in a statement.

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