How many people died from marburg virus

But she praised "the alertness and the quick investigative action by Guinea's health workers". Efforts are now under way to find people who may have been in contact with the man who died.

Four high-risk contacts, including a health worker, have been identified, in addition to others who could be at risk, expert Dr Krutika Kuppalli, who has been following the case, told the BBC. Symptoms include headache, vomiting blood, muscle pains and bleeding through various orifices. Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox. More from Reuters. New York: Springer-Verlag; ; pp. Emerging and reemerging of filoviruses.

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Marburgvirus genomics and association with a large hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Angola. Journal of Virology. This situation is not greatly different from where we were in December , when a young Guinean boy succumbed to the Ebola virus.

As in the new case with Marburg, the Ebola virus was known from other parts of the continent, but not West Africa. The long term outcome of that spillover event was an epidemic that ravaged West Africa for two years, spreading across national boundaries, pushing health care systems to their limits, taking over 10, lives, and exacting a multi-billion dollar toll in lives lost, health care, economic productivity, and the costs of containment.

Many people were surprised by the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. But this is because we had ignored important warning signs. With Marburg, we are perhaps a little less surprised.

Live Marburg virus was isolated from five Egyptian fruit bats in Sierra Leone in Genetic analysis of these viruses showed a surprising amount of genetic diversity. This means that Marburg virus has probably been present in West Africa for a long time.