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Marburg breaks out in Uganda... Developing...
Drudge | 10/05/2014

Posted on 10/05/2014 8:57:05 AM PDT by seeker41

Marburg breaks out in Uganda


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KEYWORDS: ebola; hemorrhagicfever; marburg; marburgvirus; uganda; virus
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Marburg is more deadly then Ebola, same family. Seems a outbreak in Uganda, this is scary stuff!
1 posted on 10/05/2014 8:57:05 AM PDT by seeker41
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Ping.


2 posted on 10/05/2014 8:58:50 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: seeker41

Wars, rumors of wars, pestilence.....

Can’t help but to notice a pattern developing here, and I’m not even a religious person. Might be a good time to start! lol


3 posted on 10/05/2014 8:59:09 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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Yeah, well Graham broke out here yesterday. Far more humorous than Marburg.


4 posted on 10/05/2014 8:59:18 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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Xinhua: The deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever has broken out in Uganda after samples taken to the Uganda Virus Institute tested positive, a top government official said Sunday.

Elioda Tumwesigye, minister of state for health told reporters that one person has so far died and 80 others are being monitored in central Uganda and the western district of Kasese.

"The Ministry of Health would like to inform the country of an outbreak Marburg which has so far killed one person. Another person who has developed signs is being monitored," he said.

He said the index case died on Sept. 28 after developing signs of Marburg which was later confirmed by laboratory tests. The minister said the deceased's brother has also developed signs and is currently under isolation.

He added that all the people that had contact with them are being monitored.

The Marburg virus was last reported in Uganda in 2012.

According to the World Health Organization, Marburg is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

According to the global health body, the illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and malaise.

Case fatality rates have varied greatly, from 25 percent in the initial laboratory-associated outbreak in 1967, to more than 80 percent in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1998-2000, to even higher in the outbreak that began in Angola in late 2004.

Currently some West African states are facing a related disease- - Ebola -- which has left more than 3,000 people dead. Endi

5 posted on 10/05/2014 8:59:53 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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Sorry Marburg is less dangerous. It only has a 25% fatality rate.


6 posted on 10/05/2014 8:59:55 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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The index case died on Sept. 28 after developing signs of Marburg which was later confirmed by laboratory tests. This is in its early stages!


7 posted on 10/05/2014 9:00:16 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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8 posted on 10/05/2014 9:02:03 AM PDT by EEGator
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Didn’t the Russians weaponize this for ICBMs?


9 posted on 10/05/2014 9:02:04 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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Obama promised us a unicorn but gave us the pale horse instead.


10 posted on 10/05/2014 9:02:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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To: driftdiver

Well, if that is the case I am grateful it’s 25%.


11 posted on 10/05/2014 9:02:11 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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Case fatality rates have varied greatly, from 25 percent in the initial laboratory-associated outbreak in 1967, to more than 80 percent in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1998-2000, to even higher in the outbreak that began in Angola in late 2004.
12 posted on 10/05/2014 9:03:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Pure coincidence I’m sure...

Apparently the open border thing was not infecting people fast enough so they brought out the big guns.

The two biggies back to back after a long absence of either...back to back. Yup. Just a coincidence.


13 posted on 10/05/2014 9:04:17 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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I’m guessing there is a certain degree of immunity among the native populations there. Not so much here.


14 posted on 10/05/2014 9:05:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek
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15 posted on 10/05/2014 9:05:40 AM PDT by McGruff (we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama)
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..the Uganda Virus Institute

Isn't that basically the whole country?

16 posted on 10/05/2014 9:05:52 AM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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Aaaaaaaaaah good ol Idi Amin. Almost as good as the zero..............


17 posted on 10/05/2014 9:06:00 AM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: headstamp 2

I think you are correct-MARV?


18 posted on 10/05/2014 9:06:24 AM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary & remove the son of a kenyan mooslimb)
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HERE!

19 posted on 10/05/2014 9:07:17 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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