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New 'Black Death' FOUND: Deadly virus WORSE than plague and with no CURE breaks out - WHO
express.co.uk ^
| Will Kirby
Posted on 11/05/2017 11:01:20 AM PST by BenLurkin
The disease, known as Marburg virus disease (MVD), is similar to Ebola and can be lethal in up to 90 per cent of cases.
Emergency screening has begun at the Kenya-Uganda border in Turkana after three members of the same family died of the disease in Uganda.
The outbreak is thought to have started in September when a man in his 30s, who worked as a game hunter and lived near a cave with a heavy presence of bats, was admitted to a local health centre with a high fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Several hundred people are believed to have been exposed to the virus, which is among the most virulent pathogens known to infect humans.
Early symptoms include fever, chills, headache, and myalgia.
The news comes as Madagascar faces a deadly outbreak of plague, which has already claimed the lives of 127 people.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bringoutyouread; ebola; hemorrhagicfever; kenya; marburg; marburgvirusdisease; mvd; uganda
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To: BenLurkin
From the opening scenes of the movie "Outbreak:"
Sometimes there's not much else to be done.
To: BenLurkin
An African disease named after a town in Germany - I call cultural appropriation!
Marburg is very nasty indeed, one of the viruses considered too nasty to successfully weaponize because it essentially already was.
To: BenLurkin
Nature’s way of culling the excess population.
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posted on
11/05/2017 11:42:52 AM PST
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
It's the only way to be sure.
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posted on
11/05/2017 11:44:38 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: BenLurkin; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; White Bear; ...
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posted on
11/05/2017 11:45:53 AM PST
by
bitt
(press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
To: Billthedrill
Nothing good ever came out of Africa...
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posted on
11/05/2017 11:48:32 AM PST
by
donozark
(JAMES COMEY:Democrat Presidential nominee in 2020.)
To: BenLurkin
Calling Winners for Diversity Lottery Fall 2017!!!
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Number 6902!
Number 879!
Come on in, wherever youre from! Youve just won the lottery! Sir, heres a tissue, seems you have a bit of a nose bleed...
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posted on
11/05/2017 11:49:39 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: LostInBayport
I seem to recall reading that some dog was eating the infected man’s vomit off of the sidewalk.
To: BenLurkin
..you CAN always SPOT a DAILY mail THREAD. horror PORN and EVERY other WORD capitalized.
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:04:33 PM PST
by
TomServo
To: BenLurkin
Why do all these filthy diseases originate in Africa?
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:07:26 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: BenLurkin
Recognized as a viral disease by German medical labs in the 1960’s, after dozens of workers infected by primates in a lab setting, so not new. Prior open outbreak in Uganda in 2005. Similar to Ebola, just not quite as lethal. Known carrier of the virus is a fruit bat.
Two viral cousins, Reston ebolavirus and Lloviu cuevavirus do not tend to cause disease in humans. Reston, Virginia Primate Center had quite a scare with a possibly airborne hemorrhagic outbreak in the primate processing facility back in 1989. Texas Primate Center destroyed filo-virus infected monkeys imported from the Philippines in 1996.
To: BenLurkin
I’m glad 0bama isn’t president.
5.56mm
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:18:19 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: HangnJudge
All kidding aside This is a Very Bad Virus And not a 'new' one.
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:26:28 PM PST
by
xone
To: Ozark Tom
Similar to Ebola, just not quite as lethal. Known carrier of the virus is a fruit bat. IIRC same animal in the movie Contagion.
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:37:15 PM PST
by
ealgeone
To: null and void; Salamander; JoeProBono; 50mm
"You know, there's a lot of misunderstanding about rats.
The rodendus vermikitis as they're called in Latin.
It turns out our long tailed friend wasn't after all responsible
for the dreaded bubonic plague as alleged through history.
Yes, sir. It was caused by an animal called the bubon.
That's right, and the threat by the way is still with us.
So if anyone does see a bubon, contact your local authorities."
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:39:18 PM PST
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: BenLurkin
To: PGR88
The cure? Dont live in a backward culture without sanitation and bizarre practices like dancing with the dead. This isn't the plague from Madagascar, this is something else entirely. Marburg's vector are fruit bats and some monkeys. The guy who got this was a hunter and must have come into contact with either an infected monkey or bat.
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posted on
11/05/2017 12:58:24 PM PST
by
Bon mots
(Laughing at liberal tears!)
To: BenLurkin
This virus is closely related to Ebola, both of which are viral hemorrhagic fever viruses. The Russians weaponized Marburg back in the 70s and 80s. However, both viruses can be readily contained with proper protection, hygiene, and common sense.
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posted on
11/05/2017 1:00:03 PM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
To: Cowboy Bob
Yeah, the treatment for the 4 Ebola cases cost taxpayers an estimated 20 million a piece to treat and contain.
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posted on
11/05/2017 1:02:46 PM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
(Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
To: donozark
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11/05/2017 1:05:49 PM PST
by
Ax
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