Marburg Fever Outbreak In Rwanda Is Under Control, Africa CDC Head Says

The AP (10/10, Muhumuza) reports, “An outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever is under control and travel bans targeting the East African country are unnecessary, the head of Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday.” The AP says that “according to Jean Kaseya of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of Marburg spreading out of Rwanda is almost zero.” Kaseya “praised Rwanda for what he said was a strong response to the outbreak by a range of government officials.” He said, “The mechanism they put in place even to follow the contacts, no contact can fly out of Rwanda. ... And this is amazing because they are monitoring these contacts on (a) daily basis.”