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LONDON: Medical teams trying to stamp out the worst outbreak ever recorded of the deadly Marburg virus in Angola are beginning to get it under control, as cooperation from stricken communities improves, said the U.N. health agency. The virus, closely related to the feared Ebola virus, has caused haemorrhagic fever in 266 persons and killed 244 of them since March, when the outbreak first came to the attention of health authorities. As communities begin to understand the dangers of the virus, though, the number of new cases has dropped from an average of 35 per week to 15, the World Health Organisation reported. ``This is good news, but it doesn't mean the outbreak is over,'' said Dr. Fatoumata Diallo, the WHO representative in Angola, on Saturday. ``The chain of transmission is being broken as we speak. However, this is the most critical time now in the response,'' said Dr. Mike Ryan, the WHO's top outbreak specialist from the agency's headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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