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Guinea declares end of Marburg virus outbreak

Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, at the United Nations in Geneva, May 23, 2018. [Reuters]

An outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Guinea is officially over, health authorities said on Thursday, less than six weeks since West Africa's first-ever case of the disease was detected.

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