Ebola-like virus kills 146 in Angola

LUANDA, Angola - The death toll in Angola from the outbreak of an Ebola-like virus has reached 146, authorities said Sunday.\nThe Health Ministry said in a statement that authorities had recorded 157 cases of the rare Marburg virus.\nA team of six experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has arrived in Angola to help control the outbreak, the statement said. Foreign governments and aid groups also have rushed medical teams to the region.\nThe worst outbreak of the virus previously recorded killed 123 people in neighboring Congo between 1998 and 2000. That also was the last known outbreak.\nAlmost all the Angola deaths have occurred in the northern province of Uige, on the border with Congo. Some fatalities were discovered in four other provinces, but all of those dead are believed to have contracted the virus in Uige, officials said.\nLike Ebola, which also has hit Africa, Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids and can kill rapidly. There is no vaccine.