{"id":7778,"date":"2024-10-02T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:25:08","slug":"toll-in-rwanda-marburg-outbreak-rises-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/02\/toll-in-rwanda-marburg-outbreak-rises-to-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll in Rwanda Marburg outbreak rises to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-10-toll-rwanda-marburg-outbreak.html\">Medical Express<\/a> Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late Tuesday. With a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/fatality+rate\/\">fatality rate<\/a>&nbsp;of up to 88 percent, the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 29 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease since the start of the outbreak on September 27, Rwanda&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/health+ministry\/\">health ministry<\/a>&nbsp;said in an update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nineteen of them were in isolation and receiving treatment across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that most of the cases were of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/health+care+workers\/\">health care workers<\/a>\u00a0and more than 290 contacts had been traced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2024-10-toll-rwanda-marburg-outbreak.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Express Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late Tuesday. With a&nbsp;fatality rate&nbsp;of up to 88 percent, the highly infectious hemorrhagic fever is often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure. Some 29 people have been confirmed to [&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-7778","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\/7778","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=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7779,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions\/7779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}