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    Marburg contracted from skinned monkey, says Ugandan official

    The Marburg virus outbreak in western Uganda that was confirmed on 30 July could have been contracted from a Colobus monkey, which was caught and skinned by two people, health officials said.

    "We have so far gone 14 days since the first case and if 21 days elapse without any other case, then the outbreak would have passed," Sam Okware, commissioner for health services, said.

    Okware added: "[The first victim] killed a Colobus monkey and skinned it with the help of the second person who also fell sick. We strongly suspect that this how he got infected.

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