NAIROBI: Ugandan health authorities have confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an Ebola outbreak, Africa’s top public health agency said on Wednesday. No contacts of the Marburg case have developed symptoms and there is currently no active case in the East African country, a spokesperson for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added, citing Ugandan authorities. A spokesperson for Uganda’s health ministry said he was not aware of a Marburg outbreak.

Sources confirm to STAT that Marburg cases have been detected in western Uganda, adding another viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak in central Africa.

Uganda's last recorded Marburg outbreak occurred in 2017