Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola - update 12

World Health Organization ^ | 14 April 2005 | World Health Organization

[bitt]

please add me to the Marburg list.

[Heatseeker]

Are families going to report deaths after they happen? As soon as they do that, the people in space suits will come for them. I fear that they will bury them in silence.

I think you are right, which means the death total is pretty much line with 2ndreconmarine's chart.

[ordinaryguy]

Has there been any change in the official numbers in the past couple of days? As far as I can tell, the folks in charge have absolutely no idea of exactly what sort of mess they are in charge of.

[Heatseeker]

I think they are stuck with the very limited nature of information gathering in such a society. OTOH I wonder how unhappy they (the Angolan authorities and WHO, mostly) are that there aren't more fatalities to have to report.

[hripka]

215 dead out of 235 infected = 91.5% mortality rate. That is one nasty bug.

Later Reply

91.5% is low because the 235 includes people who just haven't gotten around to dying yet.

91.5% mortality rate could be *high* since we don't know how many are infected. That number infected *could* be (much) higher than 235.

[Dog Gone]

I guess that's true, but we've not seen a single report yet of someone who survived being infected by this recent outbreak. I'd love to see it.