A hazmat worker is seen in a file photo. (LM Otero/AP Photo)
Posted on 02/16/2023 7:42:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an “urgent meeting” this week amid an outbreak of the Marburg virus, which causes one of the world’s deadliest diseases, in Africa.
A hazmat worker is seen in a file photo. (LM Otero/AP Photo)
Health officials say Marburg, first seen in the late 1960s, is related to Ebola. However, WHO officials say it’s far more deadly, killing upwards of 88 percent of people who contract it.
The virus has been detected in several African countries over the past several months, including recently in Equatorial Guinea. A small number of Marburg cases were found in Ghana late last year.
“WHO on Tuesday convened an urgent meeting of the Marburg virus vaccine consortium (MARVAC) to discuss the outbreak,” a news release from the United Nations-backed health agency said on Tuesday, adding that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever case of the virus. WHO officials say the virus is responsible for nine deaths in the tiny African nation.
The Marburg outbreak was centered around Kie Ntem Province, located in western Equatorial Guinea. The deaths occurred between Jan. 7 and Feb. 7, WHO said, citing reports.
“Surveillance in the field has been intensified,” George Ameh, WHO’s country representative in Equatorial Guinea, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail during Tuesday’s meeting. “Contact tracing, as you know, is a cornerstone of the response. We have … redeployed the COVID-19 teams that were there for contact tracing and quickly retrofitted them to really help us out.”
In its release, WHO said it sent “advance teams” to impacted districts in the West African country to provide medical care and perform contract tracing. “Health authorities sent samples to the Institut Pasteur reference laboratory in Senegal, with support from WHO, to determine the cause,” Tuesday’s release added. “Eight samples were tested, one of which turned out positive.”
Cases of the virus, however, are considered rare. Annual global figures released by WHO indicate that cases tend to be in the single digits worldwide.
And although it remains “a very rare disease in people,” says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “when it occurs, it has the potential to spread,” and can be highly deadly. “Health care staff and family members who care for the patient” infected with the hemorrhagic fever are most at risk, the CDC says (pdf) in a fact sheet.
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The thing about such a high mortality rate is that it is fairly easy to contain. If you get Marburg or Ebola…you are not traveling very far. That’s why it wipes out villages…but not much else.”
Well not exactly. There are many immune carriers so it will pop up and then burn out quickly.
Depending on the need for F U D. It will trend or not.
Marburg is a man made Chimera, closley related to Natural occurring Lassa.
Are they field testing or is it integrated w/ nature now?
And saying it's "for the children" is not going to do the trick.
If they haven’t changed the name of Marburg Virus, this means we can still keep using the term Wuhan Virus - just as I have been all along. Cool.
And there’s the cure: stay out of Africa and Africans stay out of America.
Not even the Chinese are as filthy and free exchanging bodily fluids as Africans, at least the ones China lets travel.
“Surveillance in the field has been intensified,” George Ameh, WHO’s country representative in Equatorial Guinea, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail during Tuesday’s meeting. “Contact tracing, as you know, is a cornerstone of the response. We have … redeployed the COVID-19 teams that were there for contact tracing and quickly retrofitted them to really help us out.”
Isn't that reassuring since we all know what an awesome job they did with Covid?
Will there be a new virus with the contagiousness of SARS-COV-2 and the symptoms of the Marburg virus? If so, will the anti-mask, anti-vaccination people continue their push to keep others from wearing masks and being vaccinated? Will radio talk shows continue to broadcast long infomercials for snake oil remedies? Stay tuned!
I forgot physical distancing. ;)
Will there be a new virus with the contagiousness of SARS-COV-2 and the symptoms of the Marburg virus? If so, will the anti-mask, anti-vaccination people continue their push to keep others from wearing masks and being vaccinated? Will radio talk shows continue to broadcast long infomercials for snake oil remedies? Stay tuned!
Let me guess.... but Pfizer has an Experimental MRNA vaccine for it.........
Isn’t that one of the virii from a movie?
The movie about the Marburg virus is called “Outbreak” (1995). While the main plot of the movie revolves around an outbreak of a fictional virus called Motaba in a small California town, there is a subplot involving a Marburg virus infection in Africa. The Marburg virus subplot is based on a real-life outbreak that occurred in Kenya in 1980. In the movie, a group of military doctors must race against time to contain the outbreak and find a cure before it spreads to the rest of the world. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Morgan Freeman, among others.
“ Let me guess.... but Pfizer has an Experimental MRNA vaccine for it.........”
Well, conveniently…..yes, they DO!
Damn, we’ll make a vaccine, you supply the virus business model... 🧐
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