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Suspected outbreak of Marburg virus kills eight in Tanzania, WHO says

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The viral hemorrhagic fever has a fatality rate as high as 88% and is from the same virus family as Ebola.

The outbreak in Rwanda , which shares a border with Tanzania 's Kagera region, infected 66 people and killed 15 .

Marburg virus can spread between people through direct contact or via blood and other bodily fluids.

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