{"id":3374,"date":"2023-04-25T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T21:01:55","slug":"toll-in-equatorial-guinea-marburg-outbreak-rises-to-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/04\/25\/toll-in-equatorial-guinea-marburg-outbreak-rises-to-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll in Equatorial Guinea Marburg outbreak rises to 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GMA Network<\/a> The death toll in Equatorial Guinea from an outbreak of Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, has risen to 12, the health ministry said on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figures are a provisional toll based on lab-confirmed tests as of April 21, it said in an update, adding that 116 people were currently being monitored as contact risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first known deaths were documented on January 7 in the eastern province of Kie-Ntem before the outbreak spread to Bata, the West African nation’s economic capital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest known fatality occurred on April 11, the ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marburg causes severe fever, often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is part of the so-called filovirus family that includes Ebola, which has caused several deadly epidemics in western and central Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Health Organization (WHO) last month urged Equatorial Guinea to report all virus cases to it. The agency’s concern is that a wide-scale epidemic could erupt, affecting neighboring Gabon and Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspected natural source of the Marburg virus is the African fruit bat, which carries the pathogen but does not fall sick from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatality rates in confirmed cases have ranged from 24 percent to 88 percent in previous outbreaks, depending on the virus strain and case management, according to WHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently no vaccines or antiviral treatments, but potential treatments, including blood products, immune therapies and drug therapies, as well as early candidate vaccines, are being evaluated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virus takes its name from the German city of Marburg, where it was first identified in 1967, in a lab where workers had been in contact with infected green monkeys imported from Uganda<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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