A man in Gueckedou, Guinea, has died from the Marburg virus, marking the first detection of this highly infectious disease in the country, confirmed by the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 9. The deceased sought treatment at a local clinic but succumbed to the virus, which causes severe internal bleeding and organ failure. WHO officials have initiated contact tracing for 155 individuals identified as close contacts of the deceased, who will be monitored for three weeks. The Marburg virus, first recognized in 1967, is primarily hosted by the African fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus, and poses a significant public health threat.
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https://news.yahoo.com/man-died-west-africa-virus-031451002.htmlA man in Guinea, West Africa, has died after contracting the Marburg virus, which causes internal bleeding and organ failure. The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the man's death on August 9 and said the "highly infectious disease" has the potential to "spread far and wide."
This marks the first time the Marburg virus has ever been detected in Guinea, per the WHO.
According to the WHO, the man visited a local clinic to seek treatment, but his condition deteriorated quickly before his death. Researchers at Guinea's national hemorrhagic fever laboratory and the Institute Pasteur in Senegal have confirmed the man's Marburg virus diagnosis.
Contact tracing efforts are underway to identify the deceased's close associates. In an interview with Reuters on August 10, Georges Ki-Zerbo, the WHO country head in Guinea, said 155 people were identified as close contacts. They will be observed, he said, for three weeks.
Gueckedou, the prefecture in Guinea where the man died of the Marburg virus, is the same place where the 2021 Ebola outbreak in Guinea was first detected, said the WHO.
Marburg virus was first recognized in 1967, when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Thirty-one people became ill, initially laboratory workers followed by several medical personnel and family members who had cared for them. Seven deaths were reported. The first people infected had been exposed to imported African green monkeys or their tissues while conducting research. One additional case was diagnosed retrospectively.
The reservoir host of Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus. Fruit bats infected with Marburg virus do not to show obvious signs of illness. Primates (including humans) can become infected with Marburg virus, and may develop serious disease with high mortality. Further study is needed to determine if other species may also host the virus.
I was looking this up recently. This site put that virus as number one in terms of mortality, above Ebola.Astronuc said:Summary:: Marburg virus is a hemorrhagic virus.
https://www.who.int/health-topics/marburg-virus-disease#tab=tab_1
https://news.yahoo.com/man-died-west-africa-virus-031451002.htmlAs of August 9, Guinea reported a total of 27,112 COVID-19 cases and 263 deaths, with a weekly average of 150 new cases a day. Only 2.67% of Guinea's population has been fully vaccinated.https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/index.html