{"id":3320,"date":"2023-04-18T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:41:00","slug":"marburg-update-from-the-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/18\/marburg-update-from-the-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Marburg Update from the WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-media-briefing-18-april-2023\">WHO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea where in the last week, two healthcare workers that had contracted the virus were discharged from a WHO supported treatment center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has now been a total of 16 laboratory-confirmed MVD cases. Among these cases, 11 people have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 probable cases of MVD have also been reported since the outbreak was declared on 13 February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most affected district is Bata in Litoral province, where nine cases have been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today a new case was reported in a health worker from Bata who was being monitored due to exposure from a previous case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case was detected on the day of disease onset and they were given antiviral therapy via government protocol, which is being supported by WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO calls on all partners to remain vigilant as there may be undetected chains of transmission in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With partners, WHO is supporting the Ministry of Health to strengthen surveillance, in affected areas, and increase laboratory capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re also working together to improve case management; infection prevention and control, protect health and care workers, conduct safe and dignified burials, as well as engaging with the community around risk and staying safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WHO is working with neighbouring countries to help prepare for any importation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a critical moment in the outbreak response in Equatorial Guinea, and it will take an all of government and all of society effort to stop this outbreak.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea where in the last week, two healthcare workers that had contracted the virus were discharged from a WHO supported treatment center. There has now been a total of 16 laboratory-confirmed MVD cases. Among these cases, 11 people have died. 23 probable cases of MVD have also been reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#Marburg update from @WHO in Equatorial Guinea","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marburg-virus"],"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\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}