Rwanda's health minister on Thursday declared an end to the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda, where no new cases have been reported for about two weeks and no deaths for a month.
"The Marburg outbreak in Rwanda is over," said Saban Nsanzimana, speaking during a webinar hosted by the Africa CDC, the African Union's health agency.
"I am pleased to announce today that there have been two weeks without new cases and one month without deaths associated with the Marburg virus," he added, noting that "all those infected with the virus who were treated have been discharged from hospitals."
The virus has killed 15 people in the small country in the Great Lakes region, Nsanzimana said.
The outbreak was declared in Rwanda on September 28. A vaccination campaign with an experimental vaccine was launched last month.
The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by fruit-eating bats and belongs to the same family as Ebola.
The risk of death after infection rises to 88 percent and it causes a highly contagious hemorrhagic fever and organ failure.
The virus is transmitted between humans through contact with blood or other body fluids.
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