Rather than winging it when an unusual health event crops up, health officials take a systematic approach. The goal is to quickly figure out what’s going on and squash any outbreak before it spreads.
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The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
The state government has enlisted a US software company to deploy a data management system that will speed up contact tracing. But security could be a hitch.
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