WHO said it will hold an emergency meeting today after at least nine people died in Equatorial Guinea from Marburg haemorrhagic fever, a member of the same family as the Ebola virus.
The World Health Organization "will convene an urgent meeting of the Marburg Virus Vaccine Consortium (MARVAC) ... to discuss the new Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea," the UN health agency said. in a statement, adding that the meeting will be held at 15:00 (1400 GMT).