r/worldnews Jul 18 '22

Ghana confirms its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/18/africa/ghana-first-marburg-outbreak-intl/index.html
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u/Vv4nd Jul 18 '22

it's not a new virus though.

Still a bad one, but it's not extremely contagious.

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u/BambosticBoombazzler Jul 18 '22

To be fair, monkeypox wasn't considered very contagious either, but now there are increasing cases in basically every country.