Situation: An outbreak of the Marburg virus is killing people at an alarming rate. As of March 28, 112 people, many of them children, have died from the disease. The Marburg disease is a severe form of hemorrhagic fever in the same family as Ebola. If not stopped, it will continue to kill one in every four people it infects.
Our Response: CARE Angola continues to monitor the situation, but is currently powerless to help. Because there is no known
treatment for the disease, its critical that it not spread to the capitol city of Luanda, where 5 million people live in extreme poverty with little or no access to health care.
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When disaster strikes, when poverty threatens lives, CARE is there. With staff on the ground in 66 countries, we can respond quickly — with the right kind of help. And we stay after the crisis has passed, to resume and expand our poverty-fighting work. Want to be a part of the solution? Just click here to give a gift.Your generosity will go straight to work — and have a lasting, lifesaving impact in poor communities around the world!
