{"id":8610,"date":"2025-01-28T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T23:50:01","slug":"the-marburg-virus-outbreak-is-a-critical-moment-for-rwandas-one-health-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/01\/28\/the-marburg-virus-outbreak-is-a-critical-moment-for-rwandas-one-health-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marburg virus outbreak is a critical moment for Rwanda\u2019s one health policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03473-x\">Nature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Rwanda underscores the serious threat posed by zoonotic diseases. These pathogens, which are transmitted between animals and humans through direct contact or environmental factors, result in an estimated 2.4 billion infections and 2.2 million deaths annually<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03473-x#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>. MVD, which originates from bats, can spread rapidly to humans, with a fatality rate as high as 88%<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03473-x#ref-CR2\">2<\/a><\/sup>. As of 10 October 2024, Rwanda has 58 confirmed cases of MVD, including 15 deaths<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03473-x#ref-CR3\">3<\/a><\/sup>. This crisis highlights the urgent need for Rwanda to fully operationalize its One Health policy to address the interconnected risks of human, animal and environmental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-024-03473-x\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature The Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Rwanda underscores the serious threat posed by zoonotic diseases. These pathogens, which are transmitted between animals and humans through direct contact or environmental factors, result in an estimated 2.4 billion infections and 2.2 million deaths annually1. MVD, which originates from bats, can spread rapidly to humans, with [&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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8610","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\/8610","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=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8611,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions\/8611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}