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its Marburg virus not ebola again :- Five Ugandans in isolation after Ebola-like Marburg virus death

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Health officials in East Africa country Uganda said on Monday that they are continuing to monitor five people  who are suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus -like Marburg virus, even though all expected cases of ebola virus so far have tested negative. A technician who is said to be 34 years old died from Marburg on September 28, 11 days after contacting the virus at the Mengo hospital in the capital where he worked, sparking alarm in the east African nation.