According to the new reports presented by WHO, the very first case of the Marburg virus, which is also known as, the cousin of Ebola is recorded.
The sole case found in Guinea thus far happened in a town in the region of Gueckedou. Though the area is remote it can be a serious threat especially at a time when we are struggling against the Coronavirus.
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Another spread of the virus can lead to a deadly situation much difficult to handle at any level and hence the best way out is to control the same at the local level only. Though the news is small it has created a buzz among the top experts across the globe and especially in the USA where the situation of Covid-19 is still a big question. The virus, Ebola is not a new one as it was there before few years also but its spread at this juncture can be a big challenge.
The victim was a male who perished on August 2nd after experiencing symptoms on July 25th.
Let us know more about this virus. The Marburg virus is a hazardous fever-provoking pathogen. The overall death rate is 50%, with previous epidemics ranging from 24 percent to 88 percent. The virus corresponds to the families known as the filovirus, which notably have deadly Ebola virus.
It is named in 1967 at a laboratory where employees were in a virus is transmitted to green monkeys, that had been exported from Uganda. There were in total two outbreaks that happened in Frankfurt at the same time and on average 7 people died.
How is it passed on?
The African fruit bat is the primary host or carrier of the Marburg disease. The subterranean animals have the virus but these viruses do not affect them but bats or the carriers are able to transfer the virus over to monkeys in the vicinity, even humans — the killing or slaughter of sick fats for a meal is believed of a means.
Through direct interaction or even other body fluid, or connection with objects including such linen or clothes infected with all these fluids, human-to-human transmission happens. Some illnesses occurred by chance, via needle injuries, in the laboratory.
Symptoms of the virus
This virus takes around two to 21 days to shows its effects and impacts. Some of the signs of giving this virus in your body are having high fever, muscular pain, headaches, and even diarrhea. All these symptoms are hard to detect because typhoid and malaria also have the very same symptoms.
Hemorrhagic bouts generally follow 5-7 days later, including vomiting blood and feces, even with nostrils, mouth, and vaginal bleeding. Mortality usually happens in fatal instances between 8 and 9 days.
What options are there for treatment?
Marburg’s illness has no vaccinations or antiviral therapies. Adequate fluid intake using intravenously procedures, on the other hand, increases survival, as well as the preliminary utilization of monoclonal antibodies medicines, have proved encouraging.
That’s why, according to doctors, it is critical to eradicating the illness from the start.
Ousmane Faye, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal’s capital explained that one needs to have to increase monitoring and detect all interaction patients in order to separate them if people begin forming the illness and avoid any spread.
This virus can easily be transmitted and as we don’t have a vaccine available against this, prevention is the only key to avoid the spread of this. If a person is affected by the virus, she/he needs to be isolated so that the virus cannot be transmitted to other people.