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The World Health Organization (WHO) said today it is in contact with Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Health to initiate possible experimental treatments against the Marburg virus, a disease that has killed at least nine people in a recent outbreak. a country.
CEO WHOTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, clarified at a press conference this Wednesday that there is currently no cure or vaccine for this Ebola-like disease, but there are studies on product candidates.
“Any decision to start testing will be in the hands of national authorities and researchers in Equatorial Guinea”, he claimed.
WHO organized yesterday, Tuesday, an expert meeting to analyze candidate vaccines against marburg virus and, according to Tedros, the committee will now be responsible for determining which ones will have priority in future research and possible clinical trials.
Tedros stressed that so far no cases of the disease have been detected in neighboring countries. Equatorial Guinea (Gabon and Cameroon), but what WHO is in contact with both governments to quickly identify possible infections, and also offers the assistance of experts in the field of prevention and control for Equatorial Guinea.
Equatorial Guinea confirmed on the 13th its first outbreak Marburg virus andIn the province of Ki-Ntem, in the west of the continental part of the African country and on the border with Cameroon and Gabon.
fatal disease
This marburg virus It causes a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the better known Ebola virus disease.
In the past, outbreaks and sporadic cases of the disease have been reported in other African countries such as Ghana, Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
The disease is as deadly as Ebola and it is estimated that more than 3,500 people have died in Africa.
It was first discovered in 1967 in the German city of Marburg, where its name comes from, by laboratory assistants who became infected while studying monkeys brought from Uganda.
(As reported by EFE)
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