The last death recorded by the authorities due to the epidemic of this virus cousin of Ebola was on April 3. The recorded cases of this haemorrhagic fever have spread from the province of Kié-Ntem (East) where it had caused the first known deaths on January 7.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Equatorial Guinea to report cases of the Marburg virus, fearing a potential "large-scale epidemic" that could affect neighboring Gabon and Cameroon.