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All you need to know about Marburg Virus, deadly Ebola cousins that spread like Covid

New Delhi: Guinea on Tuesday confirmed the case of the first Marburg disease recorded in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
The deadly virus was found in the sample taken from patients who died on August 2 in South Gueckedou Prefecture.
A very malignant disease brought by bats and has a mortality rate of up to 88 percent.
Viruses – related to Ebola – derived from hosts animals to humans, such as Coronavirus.
How does Marburg disease transmitted? After the initial crossover of the virus from animal hosts to humans, the transmission occurs through people’s contact-to-people, the word control and disease prevention center (CDC).
Transmission can then occur through direct contact to “body fluid droplets from infected people, or contact with equipment and other objects contaminated with blood or tissue infection.” According to WHO, human infections with this disease initially produced from mining exposure or a prolonged cave inhabited by the Bat Rousettus colony.
What are the symptoms? The beginning of symptoms – after the incubation period of 5-10 days – suddenly, and began with fever, shivering, headache, and Mialgia.
Those infected tend to experience muscle pain.
Nausea, vomiting, chest pain, sore throat, abdominal pain, and diarrhea can begin on the third day after onset.
Non-itchy rash can occur on the chest, back, and stomach.
“The symptoms become getting worse and can include yellow diseases, pancreatic inflammation, severe weight loss, delirium, shock, liver failure, massive bleeding, and multi-organ dysfunction,” CDC explained.
“Many patients experience severe hemorrhagic manifestations in seven days, and fatal cases usually have bleeding, often from several regions,” WHO said.
In fatal cases, deaths usually occur between eight and nine days after onset how can it be diagnosed? Because many symptoms of the disease are similar to malaria and typhoid fever, making a difficult diagnosis.
However, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the testing of immunosorbent testing enzymorbent that linked the antigen (Elisa), and ELISA CAPTURE IGM can be used to confirm a case.
Can this disease be treated? Until not, no treatment proved to be available for Marburg virus disease.
However, the CDC explains that hospital therapy is supportive, maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure, replacing the lost blood factors and freezing, and treatment for difficult infections can increase survival.

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