Marburg virus appeared in Africa. It is highly contagious and similar to Ebola. Now authorities are looking for people who may have come into contact with a victim who died in Guinea.
- The virus was first detected in Germany in 1967, has now been identified in a Guinean man who died as a result of the infection
- The Marburg virus spreads very quickly, and 88% die when infected. sick
- This is the first time a virus that causes a hemorrhagic fever has been identified in West Africa. Now it’s a race against time
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The Marburg virus first reached Guinea. Infected people suffer from hemorrhagic fever. In the event of infection, there is a very high death rate, as high as 88%. WHO, in cooperation with the Guinean services, is racing against time and looking for people who may have come into contact with a man who died as a result of infection with the Marburg virus.
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What is Marburg virus and what is it transmitted?
The Marburg virus was first identified in 1967. The pathogen comes from the same family of viruses as Ebola, but there are no known vaccines or treatments for the infection. In 1967, it was detected during two epidemics that occurred simultaneously in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and in Belgrade, Serbia. The epidemic was related to laboratory work on African monkeys imported from Uganda.
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In the following decades, epidemics of this virus appeared, among others in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. The largest epidemic to date occurred in Angola in 2005, when 374 people were infected with the virus. Of these, 329 people died.
Marburg virus: symptoms, illnesses
The virus is transmitted to humans via bats. It spreads from person to person through direct contact with the body fluids of infected people.
In 2018, scientists in Sierra Leone found live bats infected with the virus, but no human cases were confirmed.
Early symptoms include high fever, severe headache and malaise, and many patients develop severe hemorrhagic fever within a week.
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