and listen also to this around the 24:50 point
Now Read this
from China.org.cn
Deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever breaks out in Uganda
The deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever has broken out in Uganda after samples taken to the Uganda Virus Institute tested positive, a top government official said Sunday.
Elioda Tumwesigye, minister of state for health told reporters that one person has so far died and 80 others are being monitored in central Uganda and the western district of Kasese.
"The Ministry of Health would like to inform the country of an outbreak Marburg which has so far killed one person. Another person who has developed signs is being monitored," he said.
He said the index case died on Sept. 28 after developing signs of Marburg which was later confirmed by laboratory tests. The minister said the deceased's brother has also developed signs and is currently under isolation.
He added that all the people that had contact with them are being monitored.
The Marburg virus was last reported in Uganda in 2012.
According to the World Health Organization, Marburg is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
According to the global health body, the illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and malaise.
Case fatality rates have varied greatly, from 25 percent in the initial laboratory-associated outbreak in 1967, to more than 80 percent in the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1998-2000, to even higher in the outbreak that began in Angola in late 2004.
Currently some West African states are facing a related disease- - Ebola -- which has left more than 3,000 people dead.
9 comments:
Combine stupendous ignorance at the Dallas hospital:
“He said he was from Liberia, not Africa…”
With the increasing degree of malpractice
Report: Hospital protocol failed in TB outbreak
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - An El Paso hospital worker who exposed more than 850 infants to tuberculosis was allowed to return to work despite showing symptoms of the disease and coughing up blood at a hospital health screening, a federal report shows.
Of about 200 babies tested so far, only five have come back positive for latent TB and none with the active form of the disease.
Treatment is being offered to all exposed children 6 months old or younger.
And just imagine the depths of bureaucratic incompetence of Obamacare
We at IBA are Cassandras so much of the time!
Discerning Marburg from Ebola requires precise testing. The two viruses present the same.
Going back to the earlier post:
The reason it is significant that it is Marburg is because Marburg is weaponizable.
Pasto,
The reason it is significant that it is Marburg is because Marburg is weaponizable.
Exactly!
My point: a medical professional might think that a patient is presenting with Ebola, and later it turns out to be weaponized Marburg.
Give the poor nurse a break. She thought he was from Liberia, Costa Rica.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia,_Costa_Rica
And regarding Marburg I have heard/read that not only the U.S., Russia and China have weaponized Marburg but so has...
...North Korea.
Given the state of affairs there and current lockdown under a possible coup it is not far fetched and we have no way of knowing if one of the Kims (Il or Un) may have sold it to unsavory characters along the way to raise cash.
Hmm.
that makes SCARY SENSE.
Yeah, I know.
Dammit.
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