Increase in excise taxes on alcohol can yield 14 to 20 billion euros in societal benefits An increase in excise taxes of 50 per cent over a period of fifty years will result in societal benefits of 14 to 20 billion euro in the Netherlands.
End to Marburg risk On 11 July 2008, a Dutch woman died of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, a serious illness caused by the Marburg virus, which she had contracted in Uganda during a visit to a bat cave.