After the Corona pandemic and cases of monkey pox, it seems that the world is tense after two deaths were reported in Ghana due to a virus that “could easily get out of control”. A new nerve is encountered. Health Organization.
The agency said the virus responsible for the two deaths, called Marburg, is a “highly contagious” virus.
According to the WHO website, Marburg causes a highly contagious viral hemorrhagic fever and is from the family of the most well-known disease, the Ebola virus.
Marburg is transmitted from fruit bats to humans and is spread between humans through direct contact with the body fluids of infected individuals, contaminated surfaces and materials.
Symptoms of this disease include high fever, severe headache and weakness.
According to the agency, many patients develop severe bleeding symptoms within seven days, and the death rate for infections has varied from 24 percent to 88 percent in previous outbreaks, depending on the type of virus and the quality of case management. Organization.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that death occurs between the eighth and ninth day of infection, preceded by severe bleeding and loss of large amounts of blood.
The CDC also noted that on the fifth day of infection, a non-fructuous rash appears on the patient’s chest, abdomen or back, and noted that diagnosis of the disease “may be difficult” because its symptoms are similar to other infectious diseases. Malaria or typhoid fever. .
There is no approved vaccine or antiviral treatment to treat the virus, but supportive care, rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids, and treatment of some symptoms increase the chance of survival.
A range of potential treatments, including blood products, immunotherapy and drug therapies, as well as candidate vaccines, are being evaluated with Phase 1 data, the WHO said.
Outbreaks and sporadic cases of Marburg in Africa have been reported in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda, the agency said.
There is no relation between these two deaths and they did not meet each other with this disease.
Health officials in the African country are monitoring contacts of the two cases and looking for possible signs of infection.
The CDC says Marburg virus is “genetically unique in zoonotic disease.”
Once a person is infected, the virus can easily be transmitted through direct contact with bodily fluids such as blood, saliva or urine, as well as through surfaces and materials, and bodies can remain infectious when buried, the Washington Post said.
The first cases of this virus were detected in 1967 in Europe.
According to the CDC, two large outbreaks in Marburg (from which the virus is named) and Frankfurt, Germany, and in Belgrade, Serbia, led to the initial identification of the disease.
And the CDC announced that the injured were receiving news of a type of African monkey or parts of its tissue.
This is only the second time Marburg cases have been identified in West Africa.
Cases of Marburg have previously been reported elsewhere in Africa, including Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and the largest outbreak in Angola killed more than 200 people in 2005.
The CDC notes that cases outside of Africa are “rare.”
But in 2008, a Dutch woman died of Marburg disease after visiting Uganda. An American tourist also fell ill after traveling to Uganda in 2008, but recovered.
The two travelers had visited a famous cave where fruit bats lived in a national park.
The CDC said some of Marburg’s “experimental treatments” have been tested on animals, but never on humans.
The World Health Organization says virus samples collected from patients for study are of “extreme biological risk” and that laboratory tests should be carried out under “maximum biocontainment conditions”.
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