WHO news release. The infected person lived in a village in Guéckédou Prefecture, Nzérékoré Region, south-western Guinea. The location of the village is near both the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders.
This is the first known case of the Marburg disease virus in Guinea and in West Africa, the WHO said. The Marburg virus, also commonly known as the Marburg hemorrhagic fever (Marburg HF), is a rare disease that can infect both humans and non-human primates, according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. FILE - Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Marburg virus particles (blue) harvested from infected VERO E6 cell supernatant. (IMAGE POINT FR/NIH/NIAID/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)RELATED: Melioidos.