Thank you for the ping, EBH. I really appreciate all the investigative work on these threads.
I can't stay now & will have to check back later for an answer, but from what I understand, people with Marburg symptoms are supposedly testing negative for Marburg?
The symptoms of a Marburg or Ebola type of virus are pretty distinctive, aren't they? The woman in the hospital last week was hemorraging out of her rectum, blood running all over her legs and feet. I'm not a doctor but it seems to me that that is unusual, to say the least.
So it seems to me that:
(1) they are lying about the negative results in order to keep people calm,
(2) the virus has changed in some dramatic way, or
(3) there is some other disease that's just as deadly, or deadlier (since the "old" Marburg had a fatality rate of something like 30%, right?).
And has anyone heard anything about the Italian quarantine victims?
Indeed it has. Here's a snippet from one of the news wires:
The previous highest Marburg toll occurred from 1998 to 2000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), when 123 people died out of 149 cases over a two-year period.
But the current outbreak has spread and killed in just a few weeks.