'Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20230412-unprecedented-situation-as-outbreaks-of-marburg-virus-ap ^ | 12/04/2023

[nickcarraway]

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

The situation with the Marburg virus entered uncharted territory on March 21, when Tanzania announced an outbreak of the disease in addition to the one in Equatorial Guinea, on the other side of the African continent.

Five people have died out of eight confirmed cases as of April 6, according to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), which issued a health alert warning that doctors in the US should “be aware of the potential for imported cases”, even if the risk of the disease reaching the US is low.

The situation in Equatorial Guinea currently seems the most worrying. The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alert on February 25 after the discovery of several suspected deaths from Marburg in two villages in the north of the country in early January.

Since the first cases appeared, there have been 15 confirmed cases of Marburg in Equatorial Guinea. According to a report by the country’s health ministry, eleven of those patients died just days after symptoms of the disease appeared – vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea and high fever.

But the WHO has concerns that the official tallies are underestimating the disease’s real toll. Indeed, the cases in Equatorial Guinea come from regions quite far from each other, which suggests there “may be undetected community spread of the virus in the country”, the CDC noted.

“This is a problem – this unprecedented outbreak of the Marburg virus in two different countries,” said Paul Hunter, an epidemiologist at the University of East Anglia.

[ComputerGuy]

I remember when their stuff was leaked. It made for great reading, especially the computer code where they multiplied parts of the temperature dataset by 0.8 in order to smooth out the Medieval Warm Period.

[dpetty121263]

Hopefully they will fly these Marburg virus patients to these Blue States especially New York..

[blackdog]

Crisis generation team successful. Yea team!

[familyop]

I wonder if the pro-Russian religious charity people will bring some of them here from treatment while trying to outlaw masks and vaccines.

[null and void]

The apocalypse is coming ping...again

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.

[Tell It Right]

I remember when their stuff was leaked. It made for great reading, especially the computer code where they multiplied parts of the temperature dataset by 0.8 in order to smooth out the Medieval Warm Period.

Now the warmageddonists admit the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were real, but they say they were limited to only the northern hemisphere. Like we're supposed to forget the mega-droughts in Africa during the LIA. Or we're supposed to ignore the studies in Antarctica showing the ikaite crystals and elephant seal husks were miles further south during the Medieval Warm Period than now.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Equatorial Guina...OK, that's it. I'm taking that off my bucket list. ;>)

[redgolum]

Well...

That is bad. Very bad.

[ComputerGuy]

Now there you go again. Enough with the evidence, already!

[TornadoAlley3]

Send Dr Fauci to take care of them.

[The Sons of Liberty]

'Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus

Judging by the incompetent response of "Health Authorities" with covid, PRAY that this can be contained and NEVER get to the US.

[buckalfa]

Dang! I just put away my covid accoutrements!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Just watch. We will send C-17s to go bring planeloads of infected people here for treatment. Not even kidding.

Biden and his idiot dems are just waiting for the best time to maximize the political gain.

[little jeremiah]

Fauci’s gotta fit in here somplace.

[toddausauras]

Agree.

[OwenKellogg]

Will my mask help?

[XRdsRev]

Doubtful that Marburg could spread in the US. If it did, it could kill millions in a short period of time. Marburg is quite serious and quite lethal. Usually it burns itself out in a short period of time since it kills its victims before they have a chance to spread the virus too far.

[Organic Panic]

Sounds like a good time for Biden to send some airplanes and bring in some “refugees” and spread them around the nation.

[abigkahuna]

I sw Outbreak...I know what happens next. Look for a cute little monkey on the loose in Northern California...

[null and void]

Will my mask help?

You didn't die of COVID didja?