Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea
The province of Kien-Ntem in Equatorial Guinea, on the border with Cameroon and Gabon, according to the health authorities would be at the origin of the epidemic of the Marburg hemorrhagic virus which has a percentage of death in patients affected almost like Ebola; seven victims to which perhaps another twenty suspected cases must be added. This virus is named after the German city of Marburg where it was identified in 1967 in patients (working in a laboratory) infected with monkeys from Uganda. Human-to-human transmission occurs with blood or other fluids and the percentage of death monitored in a previous wave of infections from twenty-four to eighty-eight percent depending also on viral load, strain of the virus and specific case under examination; then vaccines or antiviral treatments are not available even if is evaluate how to adapt therapies already available.
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Date: 24/03/2023
 article n°: 5293
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