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“It was incredibly devastating that the fire burned unabated and knowing the church and campus there were unprotected,” Patterson Grindon said.

This has left them feeling “unprotected, isolated, and left alone”, according to the friend.

They also recommend that people avoid unprotected contact with sick or dead animals, and avoid materials contaminated with bird feces.

Marburg, which is not airborne, can be transmitted by exposure to fruit bats and between people via body fluids through unprotected sex and broken skin.

"It only takes one case to get into a school or nursery where many children are unprotected for numbers to suddenly surge," Dr Vanessa Saliba, from the UK Health Security Agency, said.