"We don't know how to prevent it."
"close to 100 per cent mortality"
"it's non-specific symptoms, what they call body pain, joint pain, and a fever. So what we do when we meet people who have had contact is we check their temperature twice a day and monitor them closely and if then if they become a probable case, i.e. start having some of the more violent symptoms, then we isolate them."
This last comment concerns me. If you are monitoring someone, i.e. temperature twice a day because they have the non specific symptoms, aren't they likely to be transmitting the disease, if they have Marburg. It appears that they aren't isolated at that point.
Interesting post. It looks like Uige is under some sort of serious transportation quarantine--except for western medical staff.
Me too. In a previous Marburg outbreak, only 7 of 23 patients had the hemorrhaging (from CIDRAP--link above). If there are people dying from Marburg who are not hemorrhaging--potentially, from the history of outbreaks, 2 out of 3 could just be at home, spreading it around with no official notice or concern...
"So what we do when we meet people who have had contact is we check their temperature twice a day and monitor them closely and if then if they become a probable case, i.e. start having some of the more violent symptoms, then we isolate them."
And at what point during the 10 day incubation does an individual become infectious with this new variant? It makes no sense to isolate them *after* they have become a "probable case". Those who have had contact should be isolated for at least 10 days until they have cleared the incubation period.