{"id":2627,"date":"2023-02-14T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2023-02-14T21:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T03:06:28","slug":"cameroon-detects-two-suspected-cases-of-marburg-virus-near-eq-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/02\/14\/cameroon-detects-two-suspected-cases-of-marburg-virus-near-eq-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon detects two suspected cases of Marburg virus near Eq. Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/articles\/cameroon-detects-two-suspected-cases-of-marburg-virus-near-eq.-guinea\">Reuters<\/a>)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease on Monday in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate for the region, Robert Mathurin Bidjang, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equatorial Guinea officially declared its&nbsp;first outbreak&nbsp;of the Marburg virus, an illness similar to Ebola, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbouring Cameroon had&nbsp;restricted movement&nbsp;along the border to avoid contagion following reports of an unknown, deadly hemorrhagic fever in Equatorial Guinea last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On the 13th of February, we had two suspected cases. These are two 16-year-old children, a boy and a girl, who have no previous travel history to the affected areas in Equatorial Guinea,&#8221; Bidjang said at a meeting in Cameroon&#8217;s capital Yaounde.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Cameroonian authorities detected two suspected cases of Marburg disease on Monday in Olamze, a commune on the border with Equatorial Guinea, the public health delegate for the region, Robert Mathurin Bidjang, said on Tuesday. Equatorial Guinea officially declared its&nbsp;first outbreak&nbsp;of the Marburg virus, an illness similar to Ebola, on Monday. Neighbouring Cameroon had&nbsp;restricted movement&nbsp;along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marburg-virus","category-viral-hemorrhagic-fever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}