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Rwanda will deploy Marburg vaccine under trial as death toll rises to 12

Oct. 06, 2024 07:15 AM EDT

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwandan health authorities will begin a vaccine study against the Marburg hemorrhagic fever, officials said Sunday, as the East African country tries to stop the spread of an outbreak that has killed 12 people. Rwanda, which received 700 doses of a vaccine...

Surviving Rwanda: God, remembrance and reconciliation on the genocide’s 30th anniversary

Jul. 30, 2024 23:14 PM EDT

Thirty years ago, while he was hiding from the machetes that killed his father, two of his brothers and an estimated 800,000 other people during the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi minority, Pascal Kanyemera made a deal with God. “Please, if I survive one more week, I will give you...