WHO supports Guinea after detection of first-ever case of Marburg disease

Marburg, a highly infectious illness that causes haemorrhagic fever, is transmitted to humans by effect bats.  The microorganism is successful the aforesaid household arsenic Ebola. 

It was detected in Gueckedou prefecture successful southwestern Guinea, and little than 2 months aft the state declared an extremity to an Ebola outbreak this twelvemonth which killed 12 people. 

The diligent was a antheral who died connected 2 August, 8 days aft the onset of symptoms.  The colony wherever helium lived is adjacent the borders with some Sierra Leone and Liberia. 

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General, said Guinea’s Ministry of Health reported the lawsuit to the UN bureau connected Friday. 

150 contacts identified 

WHO is supporting the authorities successful investigating the root of the outbreak, tracing contacts and successful forming the section assemblage astir extortion measures. 

“About 150 contacts person been identified and are being followed up, including 3 household members and a wellness worker, who person been identified arsenic high-risk adjacent contacts,” Tedros told journalists successful Geneva. 

Gueckedou prefecture is the aforesaid portion wherever cases of the Ebola outbreak successful Guinea this year, arsenic good arsenic the 2014–2016 West Africa outbreak, were initially detected. 

Marburg illness has a astir 90 cent fatality rate, according to WHO.  Currently determination is nary attraction against it, though vaccines are nether development, but rehydration with oral oregon intravenous fluids and attraction of circumstantial symptoms, improves survival. 

Previous outbreaks and sporadic cases connected the African continent person been reported successful Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. 

The illness was archetypal recognized successful 1967, pursuing 2 ample simultaneous outbreaks successful laboratories successful the German cities of Marburg, and successful Belgrade, superior of the past Yugoslavia.