KIGALI — Six people have been killed in Rwanda in an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the country's health ministry said on Saturday.

The highly virulent microbe causes severe fever, often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure.

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