[infominer]

Good recent article. It seems according to the article, Horacio survived.

Earlier articles relate that there have been previously reported instances of Marburg being passed by survivors up to three months after the onset via sexual intercourse. Without a cure, how does this apparent fact of subsequent transmission contribute to the perpetuation of the outbreak and evolution of the virus?

[Judith Anne]

Something else just occurred to me--if the disease can be transmitted by sexual intercourse for up to at least 3 months after a victim recovers, then the statement by WHO that only 42 days after the last case, the outbreak can be declared over?

That's just completely wrong, if it can still be transmitted for up to three months (or more--I thought I read six months).

[xVIer]

Yes they said Horacio recovered...but would they really let him leave after just 13 days without symtoms? That just seems wrong...doesn't add up to me that the medical workers would be that careless unless #1...He never had marburg in the first place or , #2...that the health system is so overtaxed that they really have no choice but to let him go as soon as he appeared "well"...
Great news if people are beginning to recover, perhaps it is weakening or is less fatal than originally suspected...
Who knows???