Marburg virus and its main symptoms
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| Marburg virus and its main symptoms |
The Corona virus has not become the only virus threatening the world during the current period, especially after the emergence of a new virus called the Marburg virus, which killed a person in West Africa, according to data from the World Health Organization, which indicated that it is a highly contagious virus that returned again after the last appearance. him in 1967.
A report issued by the World Health Organization indicated that the new virus spread more than 50 years ago, in eastern and southern Africa, and returned again after the death of a citizen in Guinea after contracting the disease.
The organization warned of the outbreak of the disease in various countries, and recommended the need to take the necessary measures to control it, especially that the death rates as a result of infection with the virus range from 24% to 88%.
The World Health Organization has identified symptoms of infection with Marburg virus, which belongs to the family of filoviruses to which the Ebola virus belongs, which is a fatal hemorrhagic fever known as VHF.
Symptoms of the virus include:
1. Headache
2. Hematemesis
3. Muscle pain
4. Bleeding
5. High temperature
6. Progressive and rapid asthenia
7. Watery diarrhea
8. Abdominal pain
9. Cramping
10. Nausea
The incubation period for hemorrhagic fever ranges from three to ten days, and the researchers confirmed that the primary infection in the virus outbreak begins upon exposure in mines or caves inhabited by bat colonies, which will be the focus of the formation of many future viruses.
The report stated that many patients develop acute hemorrhagic fever five to seven days after infection, while the early symptoms of the virus are similar to those of malaria or typhoid.
Regarding the possibility of transmission, a person infected with Marburg virus can transmit the infection to another person through direct contact.
The World Health Organization revealed the details of the death of the first case of the dangerous “Marburg” virus, stressing that the patient was initially treated in a local hospital before his condition rapidly deteriorated and died, just two months after declaring Guinea free of the “Ebola” virus after a short outbreak of the year. The current claimed the lives of twelve people.
The World Health Organization confirmed that the Marburg virus is one of the three most deadly and life-threatening viruses other than Corona. The Marburg virus was first detected in 1967 in the German city of Marburg and was therefore named after the city.
“Historical sources, including the World Health Organization, indicate that the first outbreak of the virus was in laboratories in the cities of Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, due to laboratory activities that were using African green monkeys or the so-called Saadan Al-Hagras imported from Uganda, and 25 were recorded A case of primary infection, which resulted in seven deaths.
"According to the World Health Organization, since the virus was identified, the world has witnessed twelve outbreaks, most of them in southern and eastern Africa, the most severe in Angola in the years (2004-2005). The Ministry of Health in Angola confirmed the occurrence of three hundred and seventy-four cases, and it was found that there is a direct relationship Among all cases detected in other provinces.
Death rates in Marburg virus cases ranged between 24% and 88% in previous outbreaks, and the World Health Organization adds that "the percentage depends on the strain of the virus and the method of dealing with cases."
“Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by dealing with infected wild animals such as monkeys and fruit bats, and then it is transmitted between humans by direct contact with the infected person, whether by transfusion of blood or any of the infected body fluids or through contact with the infected body secretions - Vomiting, urine, saliva, and respiratory secretions - these secretions contain the virus in high concentrations.
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