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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced an emergency meeting on Tuesday after nine people died in a month from Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola.
What is Marburg virus?
He marburg virus It causes a highly contagious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease.
It is transmitted to humans via fruit bats and is spread among humans by direct contact with the body fluids of infected people or with surfaces and materials.
This highly virulent disease causes hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of up to 88%.
The disease was discovered in 1967 in the German city of Marburg (hence the name) by laboratory assistants who became infected while studying monkeys brought from Uganda.
no vaccines
No vaccines or antivirals approved for treatment marburg virus. However, supportive care—oral or intravenous rehydration—and treatment of specific symptoms increase the chances of survival.
In accordance with WHOA number of potential treatments are being evaluated, including blood products, immune therapies and drugs, and vaccine candidates with phase 1 data.
WHO meeting
In a short statement, WHO He indicated that he would convene an “emergency meeting” of a consortium called Marvac, which promotes international cooperation in the development of vaccines against virus Marburg.
The consortium is coordinated WHO and includes representatives from the pharmaceutical industry, non-profit organizations, government agencies and academia.
Its members will assess the epidemiological situation in Equatorial Guinea, as well as possible treatments and vaccines available. WHO.
Cases in Equatorial Guinea
On February 13, Equatorial Guinea reported the death of nine people in the east of the country between January 7 and February 7 from an illness caused by the coronavirus. marburg virus. treated according to WHOabout the first epidemic of the disease virus Marburgin this small African country located in the center-west of the continent.
The area where the cases were reported, inhabited by the equatorial forest, is located in the eastern part of the mainland of the country, which also includes two main islands.
In accordance with WHOwaves of sporadic cases of the virus Marburg they have been reported in the past in West and South Africa, Angola, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(According to EFE and AFP)
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