{"id":7963,"date":"2024-10-23T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7963"},"modified":"2024-10-23T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:02:30","slug":"rwanda-sees-no-new-infections-or-deaths-due-to-marburg-virus-for-nearly-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/10\/23\/rwanda-sees-no-new-infections-or-deaths-due-to-marburg-virus-for-nearly-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda sees no new infections or deaths due to Marburg virus for nearly a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/10\/21\/rwanda-sees-no-new-infections-or-deaths-due-to-marburg-virus-for-nearly-a-week\">EuroNews<\/a> The country&#8217;s health minister cited the absence of new infections and deaths in the past six days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no &#8220;community transmission&#8221; in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/09\/30\/two-dead-as-ghana-declares-first-outbreak-of-highly-contagious-marburg-virus\"><strong>Marburg virus<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;outbreak in Rwanda, the country&#8217;s health minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All positive cases have come from the list of known contacts of people with the virus, health minister Sabin Nsanzimana told reporters in Kigali, the Rwandan capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there had been no new infections or deaths in the past six days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying and isolating people who have been exposed to the virus is key to stopping outbreaks of haemorrhagic fevers like Marburg.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EuroNews The country&#8217;s health minister cited the absence of new infections and deaths in the past six days. There is no &#8220;community transmission&#8221; in the&nbsp;Marburg virus&nbsp;outbreak in Rwanda, the country&#8217;s health minister said on Sunday. All positive cases have come from the list of known contacts of people with the virus, health minister Sabin Nsanzimana [&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-7963","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\/7963","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=7963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}