Marburg virus News

The advance teams have been deployed in the affected districts to trace contacts, isolate and provide medical care to people showing symptoms of the disease, details below.

Marburg virus has caused two deaths in Ghana and the World Health Organisation has declared it an outbreak in the country Marburg virus, just like Monkeypox, is also a zoonotic virus or animal-borne virus The Marburg virus is a is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which can infect humans and animals both

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Ghana’s first outbreak of Marburg virus The Marburg virus is a is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which infects humans

Marburg Virus Outbreak The first case was a 26-year-old male who checked into a hospital on June 26 and died on June 27. The second was a 51-year-old male who went to the hospital on June 28 and died the same day, WHO said.

Marburg is potentially very harmful and deadly: Case fatality rates in past outbreaks have ranged from 24% to 88%.

At least two cases of the Marburg virus infection were detected in the African country on Thursday. According to doctors, those infected with this virus have various symptoms including fever, vomiting, headache. Marburg has been associated with the ebola virus infection that has spread alarmingly in Africa.

WHO on August 9 confirmed the first-ever case of the highly infectious disease 'Marburg' virus in West Africa. It informed that Marburg was reported in Guinea's Gueckedou. A team of 10 WHO experts, including epidemiologists and socio-anthropologists, is now on the ground helping to investigate the case.