113 dead from fatal virus
2005-03-25 10:46
Luanda - The death toll in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola has risen to 113, with 111 deaths in the northern Uige province and two in the capital Luanda, health officials said Friday. '
"The death toll is 111... in the Uige provincial hospital," Carlos Alberto, a health ministry spokesperson told AFP from Uige, about 300km north of Luanda.
The provincial health director for Luanda, Vita Mvemba, said there were two deaths in the capital.
"We have registered one death at the Josina Machel hospital of a 15-year-old boy who had been to the Uige province ... and a case of an Italian doctor, who had also been to Uige, who died on Thursday night in the Sagrada Esperanca clinic," Mvemba said.
The doctor was identified as Italian paediatrician Maria Bonino.
- AFP