Rwanda begins Marburg vaccinations to curb deadly outbreak
Voice of America
Rwanda said Sunday it had begun administering vaccine doses against the Marburg virus to try to combat an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease in the east African country, where it has so far killed 12 people.
This photo provided by the Elephant Nature Park shows three of the roughly 100 elephants stuck in rising floodwaters at the park in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Oct. 3, 2024. (Darrick Thompson/Elephant Nature Park via AP) Tourists leave a flood-hit area in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Oct. 5, 2024.
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 5, 2024. People stand near damaged vehicles at the site hit by an Israeli strike that, according to a security source, killed a Hamas leader, Saeed Atallah, and three family members, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Oct. 5, 2024. A man walks past a damaged building in the aftermath of the Israeli strikes, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in the Chiyah area of Dahiyeh, Beirut, Oct. 5, 2024.
FILE - Restaurant owner Shin Byung-chul looks from behind a flyer he put up of Kenneth Barthel, who was abandoned in the area as a child and later adopted to Hawaii at 6 years old, at his restaurant in Busan, South Korea, May 17, 2024. FILE - Kenneth Barthel, left, who was adopted to the United States at age 6, and his wife, Napela, comfort each other as they leave the Busan Metropolitan City Child Protection Center in Busan, South Korea, May 17, 2024, after searching for documents related to his birth family.