Posted on 04/14/2023 11:07:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.
The situation with the Marburg virus entered uncharted territory on March 21, when Tanzania announced an outbreak of the disease in addition to the one in Equatorial Guinea, on the other side of the African continent.
Five people have died out of eight confirmed cases as of April 6, according to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), which issued a health alert warning that doctors in the US should “be aware of the potential for imported cases”, even if the risk of the disease reaching the US is low.
The situation in Equatorial Guinea currently seems the most worrying. The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alert on February 25 after the discovery of several suspected deaths from Marburg in two villages in the north of the country in early January.
Since the first cases appeared, there have been 15 confirmed cases of Marburg in Equatorial Guinea. According to a report by the country’s health ministry, eleven of those patients died just days after symptoms of the disease appeared – vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea and high fever.
But the WHO has concerns that the official tallies are underestimating the disease’s real toll. Indeed, the cases in Equatorial Guinea come from regions quite far from each other, which suggests there “may be undetected community spread of the virus in the country”, the CDC noted.
“This is a problem – this unprecedented outbreak of the Marburg virus in two different countries,” said Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia.
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Quick! Take over the US Economy and trample civil rights!
Just watch. We will send C-17s to go bring planeloads of infected people here for treatment. Not even kidding.
the University of East Anglia is ‘famous’ for their globull warming emails.
Bill gates is smiling. My solution...STOP all immigration for 25 years. Cool?
Has travel from those countries to the US been banned...yet?
Where’s Bill Gates and Fauci?
Plagues seem to be the new normal, guess that’s the inevitable result of world over-crowding.
Yep. And completely ignored by the “media”.
and 2024 is coming up
Already been done. That would be the sequel.
And Trump.
Is Dr Fauchi in his way there to see if he can get “Gain of function” for it?
Or does he already have a version waiting in the wings?
What a coincidence.(s.)
When i first heard of gain of function i thought of stroke victims boy was i wrong
The apocalypse is coming ping...again
If we can’t say “Wuhan Virus”, how can possibly still use “Marburg Virus”? Isn’t this also “Waccis”?
It would take that long to sort it out.
We need to close the doors and kick out the illegal aliens.
Big Pharma guy brags about messing with Covid, it’s buried now.
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