Posted on 07/19/2022 9:26:09 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
There have been a dozen major Marburg outbreaks since 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization.
DAKAR — Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month.
Tests conducted in Ghana came back positive on July 10, but the results had to be verified by a laboratory in Senegal for the cases to be considered confirmed, according to the World Health Organization.
“Further testing at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal has corroborated the results,” Ghana Health Service (GHS) said in a statement.
GHS is working to reduce any risk of the virus spreading, including the isolation of all identified contacts, none of whom have developed any symptoms so far, it said.
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We need mail in ballots and unattended drop boxes right the f’ now!!!
For those who may not be aware, Marburg virus was a commonly researched biological weapons candidate. I say “was” because nobody is supposed to be doing that anymore. Officially, that is.
Is this the Gates variant or the Fauci variant?
More immigration/s
But I haven’t finished monkeypox...
Quick - get them on a plane to New York City!
Not of Marburg.
It’s not easy to acquire.
Hey, great! Let’s visit them over here so we get infected like the monkey pox. Liberals please tour these shit hole countries they give everyone diseases and kill people back home.
It’s Ghana git you, sucka.
Marburg’s in Europe. The disease is African. This is as clear a case of cultural appropriation as I’ve seen in a long time.
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