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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So close our borders then.
The WHO loves to pretend they care about people.
I am sure it will go the same route as the weaponization of the bat virus.
I hope everyone is prayed up. I can’t see mankind not killing itself in the short term.
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.
The false positive rate was 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...
Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.
Bring out your dead ping, please
Wuhan lab has a Covid virus with an 80% fatality rate.
Okay
RE: Wuhan lab has a Covid virus with an 80% fatality rate.
Can you please share with us the link for this?
At this point I say bring it on. Can’t be any worse than watching this country collapse.
I’ll avoid anyone bleeding from all their orifices. Maybe it will cut down on the “car warranty” calls.
It was from a wall Street Journal article I read several months the ago. The journal interviewed a former Wuhan lab employee.
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.
I am taking the 88% death clame with the same accuracy as the 95% effective, but that still means up to 12% have life long damage.
I do not ever want to get a hemorrhagic virus again cause they suck really badly, you might only wish you were dead for a while the blood drips from your eyes and ears.
Most likely you survive.
The early variants were not very contagious.
who knows today
Yep, and wiped out the lab techs in Marburg, Germany, that were using Green Monkey Kidney cells to propagate viruses. Lassa was another virus that made lab workers a little more careful when handling some viruses at Cornell, I believe.
Biden will want to send American soldiers to ‘help’ with the disease if it gets bad - (then bring them back here to kill.off Americans in flyover.
Biden dumps his guilt for ripping off the country by being the ‘Great White Savior of Black people’.
Which by the way is insulting to the black community... and to all the rest of us.
Distribution planning?
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