Ping.
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
Yeah, well Graham broke out here yesterday. Far more humorous than Marburg.
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
Sorry Marburg is less dangerous. It only has a 25% fatality rate.
Didn’t the Russians weaponize this for ICBMs?
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.
Just dandy as candy ...
Quarantine all arriving ships and crews if they have visited African ports, also!
Leni
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
CORRECTION - Marburg is supposedly less deadly then Ebola if that is any comfort. We shall see...
Thanks for posting. Health/life BUMP!
If you listen to the guy named Mike who called into Sean Hannity’s show on Friday at the 25 minute mark he says the current “Ebola” epidemic is not Ebola but Marburg virus.
This guy Mike gave Sean’s asst. information to check him out and she did while he was on the phone with Sean. Sean mentioned that he knew the company the guy was the CEO of and that he was the real meal deal.
This guy Mike said that Ebola is 100% fatal in all cases. In 48 hours there is nothing left of your body but liquid. Even your bones liguify. He says the Marburg virus is a sister virus to the Ebola virus and is about 70% fatal. He also said it mutates so fast that you cannot create a vaccine for it for more than about 2 people because by the time 3-5 others get it that vaccine won’t work anymore. He also said by the time they make more of that ZMapp it won’t be effective.
So basically we are being misled at the very minimum about this stuff.
I read somewhere that South America is battling some virus as well?
Every time I open FR , there’s more bad news. I need an anti depressant!!!
I always say they have not yet built a jail that could hold Marburg.