Angola
The Marburg haemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola in 2005 underlined not only the human damage the virus could cause, but how health facilities can make a deadly epidemic even worse. The outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded, with more than 200 deaths reported in the town of Uige and several health-care workers and patients infected. Strict infection control measures were implemented to stop the virus spreading in health clinics and hospitals.