WHO convenes 'urgent' meeting over outbreak of Marburg virus — one of the world's deadliest diseases that kills 90% of patients and has no cure

There are growing fears that the world could be caught off guard by the currently untreatable infection that kills up to 88 percent of the people it infects.


The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an urgent meeting Tuesday amid an outbreak in Africa of one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

The leading health body brought experts from around the world together to discuss how to ramp up the development of vaccines and therapeutics for Marburg virus.-- More...

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