Ghana has reported two suspected cases of Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease believed to be in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola.

This comes after a preliminary analysis of samples taken from two patients from Ghana’s southern Ashanti region both of whom died turned up positive.

The samples have been subsequently forwarded for full confirmation to the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal.

The two patients had earlier been taken to a local hospital with symptoms including diarrhoea, fever, nausea and vomiting, World Health Organisation said in a statement.

The WHO organization said