As the case of Coronavirus is reducing gradually through its preventive measures, another deadly disease known to be identified as Marburg Virus has just hit a West African country known as Ghana as WHO reviewed in recent days. It has been confirmed by the Ghana health service that two people who tested positive for the Marburg deadly virus in the southern Ashanti of the country following the WHO directive died within a short period of time after the test was conducted.
Marburg virus has no vaccine yet according to the WHO but is currently working towards achieving it. The virus is said to be deadly as Ebola because its symptoms seem to look alike but very rare to see such a virus. The Marburg virus is highly contagious just like Ebola with its viral hemorrhagic fever. The center for disease control CDC classified the Marburg virus as belonging to the Ebola virus family because of its filovirus.
The Washington Post reported that there is a high increase of animal infection in Africa as it has grown with about 60% as it was also discovered that people are being infected with the Marburg virus through a deadly African fruits bats because most of them are being exposed from working in caves and that of mines.
According to The Washington Post in relation to the CDC and WHO report, if a person contacts the Virus through any of the African fruits bats. There’s every tendency that the diseases will easily be transmitted from human to human through blood contact, saliva, urine including any surfaces or material touched by the patients having the virus.
The Marburg deadly virus case was first seen in 1967 across some European countries which were including Germany, and Serbia. The CDC recorded that they were exposed to the African green monkey that was imported to Europe from Uganda. As the outbreak first sparked, about seven deaths were recorded, the CDC stated.
WHO Reported that the recent Marburg virus outbreak for the first time across West Africa hits Ghana as two people were suspected with the case across the Ashanti region, it was recorded on June 24, 2022. The first case was that of a 26-year-old male adult who is said to be a farm worker from the North Ashanti region but has a traveling history across the Western parts of the country. Immediately he was said to have reached the Ashanti West with his symptom of hemorrhagic fever, he was reported to the health care on the 24 of June with such symptoms but was later hospitalized on the 26 and died on the 27 of that same June 2022 having just a period of three days while the second case of the Marburg virus was that of a 51 years age male. He was also said to be a farmer from Bekwai Municipal in the same Ashanti region in Ghana who was admitted to the same hospital on the 28 of June 2022 and died on the same day.
The Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medicine Research (NMIMR) took both samples of the diseased two patients and confirmed that it was a Marburg virus but in order to be sure about the virus, the department sent the same sample to the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal (IPD) which also confirmed the result.
The WHO reported that the two cases of the Marburg virus disease were seen with severe signs of bleeding from the nose, mouth, and vessels, general malaise, and fever.
Following the Marburg virus outbreak in Africa, the WHO has directed that the communities which were involved with such Marburg cases should be monitored from the Ashanti, Western, and Savannah regions to avoid more spread of the virus and to make sure that the communities follow a preventive measure control.
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Confirming this report of the Marburg virus across West Africa from a Twitter account, a lot of people are already panicking about the virus and have stated that the WHO and CDC should please help Ghana fight the virus to curtail more spread of the virus within and outside Ghana.
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