Two people have died from the extremely deadly Marburg virus in Ghana

[Burgermeister]

Two people are believed to have died from the extremely deadly Marburg virus in Ghana as officials gear up for a potential outbreak.

The patients, from the country's southern Ashanti region, were not known to each other, suggesting the disease is spreading more widely.

A deadly cousin of Ebola, Marburg kills between a quarter and 90 per cent of everyone who gets infected.

The highly-infectious pathogen has been touted as the next big pandemic threat, with the WHO describing it as 'epidemic-prone'.

Infected patients become 'ghost-like', often developing deep-set eyes and expressionless faces. This is usually accompanied by bleeding from multiple orifices — including the nose, gums, eyes and vagina.

Fears over fresh outbreak of Marburg virus that kills 90% of patients

A deadly cousin of Ebola, Marburg virus can kill between a quarter and 90 per cent of the people it infects. International travel has taken it from Africa to Europe twice in the past 40 years.

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They won't need to drum up panic like they did with Covid if this things escapes. There is no cure, and the incubation period is up to three weeks, so there is no telling if it has spread yet and it will be difficult to isolate it if it has.

 

[fncceo]

Marburg, like Ebola, is a hemorrhagic fever ... a REALLY sucky way to die.

But, like Ebola and similar viruses, it can only be transmitted by the exchange of body fluids though unprotected sex or a break in the skin.

Good handwashing will do more to stop Marburg than a vaccine (of which there is none).

One of the reasons that diseases like Marburg and Ebola cause outbreaks in Africa but rarely in Western Countries is the lack of hygiene. Handwashing techniques that we use regularly here, where clean water is plentiful and cheap, are less likely to be used in poor, third world countries, where clean water is much harder to get, even in hospitals.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Fears over fresh outbreak of Marburg virus that kills 90% of patients

A deadly cousin of Ebola, Marburg virus can kill between a quarter and 90 per cent of the people it infects. International travel has taken it from Africa to Europe twice in the past 40 years.

www.dailymail.co.uk

They won't need to drum up panic like they did with Covid if this things escapes. There is no cure, and the incubation period is up to three weeks, so there is no telling if it has spread yet and it will be difficult to isolate it if it has.

Fauci and his Chinese allies are furiously working to weaponize this and unleash it on America.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

Don't tell the lefties, you'll start another Dempanic.
They'll take to their beds & demand we lockdown the world again

 

[JGalt]

Yaet another wonderful contribution Africa has given the world. China is just as bad, but at least they gave us gunpowder and noodles.

 

[Burgermeister]

Fauci and his Chinese allies are furiously working to weaponize this and unleash it on America.

It is a very popular virus for bioweapon research, first successfully weaponized by the Russians in 1989. Read Biohazard, by Ken Alibek, former head of their program.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Marburg, like Ebola, is a hemorrhagic fever ... a REALLY sucky way to die.

But, like Ebola and similar viruses, it can only be transmitted by the exchange of body fluids though unprotected sex or a break in the skin.

Good handwashing will do more to stop Marburg than a vaccine (of which there is none).

One of the reasons that diseases like Marburg and Ebola cause outbreaks in Africa but rarely in Western Countries is the lack of hygiene. Handwashing techniques that we use regularly here, where clean water is plentiful and cheap, are less likely to be used in poor, third world countries, where clean water is much harder to get, even in hospitals.

But the terror is great political capital.

 

[fncceo]

But the terror is great political capital.

Who isn't inured to medical terror these days ...

... we just spent the last two years portraying the common cold as the worst plague since Moses left Egypt.

At this point, an outbreak of Zombie Virus would merit a huge "meh".

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Who isn't inured to medical terror these days ...

... we just spent the last two years portraying the common cold as the worst plague since Moses left Egypt.

At this point, an outbreak of Zombie Virus would merit a huge "meh".

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[badger2]

Fears over fresh outbreak of Marburg virus that kills 90% of patients

A deadly cousin of Ebola, Marburg virus can kill between a quarter and 90 per cent of the people it infects. International travel has taken it from Africa to Europe twice in the past 40 years.

www.dailymail.co.uk

They won't need to drum up panic like they did with Covid if this things escapes. There is no cure, and the incubation period is up to three weeks, so there is no telling if it has spread yet and it will be difficult to isolate it if it has.

OP's article doesn't give details: 'after a small outbreak in Guinea last year.' That small outbreak happened in Gueckedou, the same town and epicenter of the 2013-14 ebola outbreak, which victim was an infant. In Sierra Leone in 2018, 11 Egyptian fruit bats were found infected with Marburg. They searched and analyzed the bat tree suspected in Gueckedou, with no results. Fruit bats migrate, making it an even more dangerous.

 

[badger2]

This thread by default links to the monkeypox thread as well as wildlife trade for vectors of Sars-Cov-2:

Jul 2020

Human monkeypox - After 40 years, an unintended consequence of smallpox eradication - PubMed

Smallpox eradication, coordinated by the WHO and certified 40 years ago, led to the cessation of routine smallpox vaccination in most countries. It is estimated that over 70% of the world's population is no longer protected against smallpox, and through cross-immunity, to closely related...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

'....monkeypox in small animals imported from Ghana as exotic pets was at the origin of an outbreak in the US in 2003. Travelers infected in Nigeria were at the origin of cases in UK in 2018-19, Israel in 2018 and Singapore, 2019.'

Note that this study links Porton Down in Salisbury, automatically linking British MI6.

 

[badger2]

Nasty Things

The SARS-CoV-1 outbreak in China occurred on 16 Ap 2003.

May 2003 Monkeypox, Ill., In. Wi

The detection of monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere - PubMed

Our investigation documents the isolation and identification of monkeypox virus from humans in the Western Hemisphere. Infection of humans was associated with direct contact with ill prairie dogs that were being kept or sold as pets.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

'....an ill Gambian Giant Rat (Cricetomys spp.), which had been recently imported from Ghana....'

 

[badger2]

The Cricetomys giant rat monkeypox also occurs in Funisciurus, Graphiurus, Oenomys and the elephant shrew, Petrodromus. The tick, Rhipicephalus muehlensi parasitizes Petrodromus. It also occurs on the red river hog, Potamocheorus porcus:

R. muehlensi on Potamochoerus porcus

Ixodid ticks and lice infesting red duikers and bushpigs in north-eastern Natal - PubMed

Eighteen red duikers, Cephalophus natalensis, from the Charters Creek Nature Reserve and 2 from Fanies Island Nature Reserve were processed for arthropod parasite recovery. They harboured 8 species of ixodid ticks and 2 lice species. All were infested with Haemaphysalis parmata and the nymphs of...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

2017 Likati Ebola Outbreak / Potamochoerus / Eidolon helvum Fruit Bat

Role of Wildlife in Emergence of Ebola Virus in Kaigbono (Likati), Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017 - PubMed

After the 2017 Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in Likati, a district in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, we sampled small mammals from the location where the primary case-patient presumably acquired the infection. None tested positive for EBOV RNA or antibodies against EBOV, highlighting...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

'....This primary case-patient ate cooked meat from a red river hog, Potamochoerus porcus, 13 days before onset of symptoms. Other persons had found the dead hog in the forest. The primary case-patient of the 2017 EBOV outbreak in Likati had eaten prepared meat from a red river hog and a fruit bat, probably Eidolon helvum.'

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

We just need to close everything down for two weeks to slow the spread.

 

[badger2]

So a pertinent report is here:

May 2018 Madrid, Hamburg, Stockholm, Tartumaa / Poxvirus-Based Ebola Vaccine

https://pubmed/ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29514907

 

[badger2]

Distinct Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Poxvirus-Based Vaccine Candidates against Ebola Virus Expressing GP and VP40 Proteins - PubMed

<span><i>Zaire</i> and <i>Sudan ebolavirus</i> species cause a severe disease in humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs) characterized by a high mortality rate. There are no licensed therapies or vaccines against Ebola virus disease (EVD), and the recent 2013 to 2016 outbreak in West Africa...

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[badger2]

Monkeypox has the same mechanism of entry into cells as does vaccinia poxvirus. The vaccine above is based on Vaccinia strain Ankara, which links to chloroquine and blebbistatin at Fau Chi's NIH:

NIH / Vaccinia Mode of Entry / Chloroquine-Blebbistatin

The membrane fusion step of vaccinia virus entry is cooperatively mediated by multiple viral proteins and host cell components - PubMed

For many viruses, one or two proteins allow cell attachment and entry, which occurs through the plasma membrane or following endocytosis at low pH. In contrast, vaccinia virus (VACV) enters cells by both neutral and low pH routes; four proteins mediate cell attachment and twelve that are...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Marburg, like Ebola, is a hemorrhagic fever ... a REALLY sucky way to die.

But, like Ebola and similar viruses, it can only be transmitted by the exchange of body fluids though unprotected sex or a break in the skin.

Good handwashing will do more to stop Marburg than a vaccine (of which there is none).

One of the reasons that diseases like Marburg and Ebola cause outbreaks in Africa but rarely in Western Countries is the lack of hygiene. Handwashing techniques that we use regularly here, where clean water is plentiful and cheap, are less likely to be used in poor, third world countries, where clean water is much harder to get, even in hospitals.

Simmering Simians

Africa has everything we have, except for human intelligence. Who's preventing us from recognizing the obvious?

 

[HenryBHough]

Think of Marburg as a new burglary tool for Democrats and all will become clear.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

OP's article doesn't give details: 'after a small outbreak in Guinea last year.' That small outbreak happened in Gueckedou, the same town and epicenter of the 2013-14 ebola outbreak, which victim was an infant. In Sierra Leone in 2018, 11 Egyptian fruit bats were found infected with Marburg. They searched and analyzed the bat tree suspected in Gueckedou, with no results. Fruit bats migrate, making it an even more dangerous.

Time Flies Like an Arrow
Fruit Flies Like a Banana