<p>Tanzania's president has said one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania has tested positive fir Marburg disease.</p><p>In the capotal Dodoma, President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke alongside the World Health Organization directir-general at a news conference.</p><p>Marburg disease is a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88 percent of cases without treatment.</p><p>Like Ebloa, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats, and spreads between poeple through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces such as contaminated bedsheets.</p><p>I'm Karen Chammas.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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