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Kenyan suspected to have contracted deadly Marburg declared virus-free

CS for health James Macharia during regional ministerial meeting in Nairobi

A huge sense of relief was felt yesterday after a Kenyan suspected to have contracted the deadly Marburg virus, a killer sister of Ebola, was found to be free of the disease.

Health Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told The Standard yesterday that the Kenyan fell seriously ill after returning from Uganda, prompting suspicions he could have contracted the killer virus.

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