{"id":10845,"date":"2025-11-19T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:45:07","slug":"ethiopia-confirms-three-deaths-in-new-marburg-virus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/ethiopia-confirms-three-deaths-in-new-marburg-virus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia confirms three deaths in new Marburg virus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2025\/11\/17\/ethiopia-confirms-three-deaths-in-new-marburg-virus-outbreak\/\/\">Africa News<\/a> <strong>Ethiopia confirmed on Monday the deaths of three people who had contracted the Marburg virus. The country\u2019s health ministry said three additional fatalities were being investigated for a possible connection to the disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This announcement comes after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2025\/11\/17\/twin-health-crises-marburg-and-cholera-challenge-africas-health-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"&nbsp;Ethiopian authorities declared the Marburg outbreak on Friday., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<strong>Ethiopian authorities declared the Marburg outbreak on Friday.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;The outbreak was reported in the Omo region, an area neighbouring South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopian Health Minister Mekdes Daba said the government had conducted tests in 17 suspected cases in the country&#8217;s south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, 129 people who were in contact with the confirmed cases have been isolated and are being monitored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said there were no active cases but the government was taking preventive measures. A team from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been dispatched to support with testing and outbreak control.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"axqGPD\">axqGPD<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa News Ethiopia confirmed on Monday the deaths of three people who had contracted the Marburg virus. The country\u2019s health ministry said three additional fatalities were being investigated for a possible connection to the disease. This announcement comes after&nbsp;Ethiopian authorities declared the Marburg outbreak on Friday.&nbsp;The outbreak was reported in the Omo region, an area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines","category-marburg-virus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10846,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions\/10846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}