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Marburg virus: Be warned, signs include; diarrhoea, fever, vomiting

Lab technicians conducting tests on a suspected Covid-19 virus. [Getty Images]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has put African countries on alert after two male victims of the Marburg virus died of the deadly disease in Ghana-the second time for a West African country.

The victims aged 26 and 51 hailed from the Southern Ashanti region, but were not related. Both had shown symptoms including diarrhoea, fever nausea and vomiting in the same health facility.

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