Posted on 03/22/2023 7:45:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
High fever is a common symptom of the deadly Ebola-like virus, often followed by bleeding and organ failure.
Tanzania's health minister Ummy Mwalimu said the disease had been contained and she was confident it would not spread further.
Three people are being treated in hospital and authorities are tracing 161 contacts, Ms Mwalimu added.
The Marburg virus is a cousin of the equally deadly Ebola virus - part of the filovirus family - and it kills on average half of those infected, the WHO says.
It is a severe, often fatal illness with symptoms including headache, fever, muscle pains, vomiting blood and bleeding.
No vaccines or anti-viral treatments have been approved to treat the virus, the WHO has said, but it adds that rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids has improved survival.
The virus was first identified in 1967, after 31 people were infected and died simultaneously in Germany and Serbia.
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Nuke it from space.....It’s the only way to be sure.................
I hate it when that happens...
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...
Nuke the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.
This is where the Covid nightmare really begins. If we have the CDC screaming wolf, insisting we lock down for this REAL lethal epidemic, who’d listen to “science and the experts” again?
"High fever is a common symptom of the deadly Ebola-like virus, often followed by bleeding and organ failure.
Tanzania's health minister Ummy Mwalimu said the disease had been contained and she was confident it would not spread further.
Three people are being treated in hospital and authorities are tracing 161 contacts, Ms Mwalimu added."
"The Marburg virus is a cousin of the equally deadly Ebola virus - part of the filovirus family - and it kills on average half of those infected, the WHO says."
"No vaccines or anti-viral treatments have been approved to treat the virus, the WHO has said,
but it adds that rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids has improved survival. "
Just a note that Marburg is a city in Germany, lovely, and home to a venerable University.
No one in Germany apparently demanding an antiseptic name change for the virus.
Very true the experts have lost me I don’t believe a word they say.
Well the Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. It was called the Spanish Flu because Spain was one of the few countries, that as a neutral during WWI, didn’t censor reports about the outbreak.
The virus can remain in certain body fluids (including semen) of a patient who has recovered from EVD, even if they no longer have symptoms of severe illness.
The disease is called Marburg because it was first seen and identified in both Germany, and Serbia, almost simultaneously.
Just a reminder: Over-the-counter antihistamines disrupt the feedback cycle that results in cytokine storm.
Cytokine storm is how diseases like this kill.
Therefore, if you’re afraid it might spread to your area, it would be prudent to stock up on Claritin.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, make disciples (teach a better way). Beats nuking the sick and having these problems.
I saw something on Bloomberg this morning that said Monkeypox was up to 45,000 cases world wide.
I thought it had died out.
Right.
And the Wuhan virus was similarly labelled before it was abstractly named for fear of offense.
Spain has never tried to rename the Spanish flu though has it?
Thanks for the ping.
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