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A man in Uganda who lives in the capital city of Kampala has died of Marburg, a highly infectious and virulent hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola. Authorities in Uganda have put about 80 people who came into contact with the man under quarantine.
Marburg fever begins with a severe headache, followed by hemorrhage, and kills about 80% of the people who get it. The virus causing Marburg is in the same family of viruses as Ebola, and like Ebola, there is no vaccine or treatment for the virus. It is transmitted through bodily fluids and by handling infected wild animals such as monkeys.
The man who died has a brother who has now developed similar symptoms and is in quarantine with about 60 healthcare workers.
The man who died worked as a radiographer at Kampala’s Mengo Hospital. After his death on September 28, nearly 100 people who had been in contact with him have been identified, including workers at the hospital and another clinic that treated him, and people living in the district where the deceased man was buried.
The Ugandan government has mobilized health teams and issued a public alert, and 99 people are now in quarantine, all of whom had had contact with the deceased man, who is still the only known case.
Some 11 of those people had developed some symptoms, but tests revealed the symptoms were not due to Marburg.
Marburg is named after Marburg, Germany, where the disease was first recognized in 1967. Uganda had its first experience with the disease in 2012, and 9 people died.
Uganda has also had a history of Ebola outbreaks, also.
As yet, we have seen no speculation or information as to how this deceased man contracted Marburg.
However, two new “suspect cases” of Marburg are in isolation at the hospital Mulago, the national referral hospital in Uganda. Since they had no contact with the health worker who died on September 28, fears are that a second outbreak may have begun.
As of October 16, a woman died of “suspect symptoms” in the Kenyan town of Bungoma, near the border of Uganda. Residents are considering measures to screen people crossing into Kenya from neighboring countries.
Somehow, we suspect that the people of Kenya and Uganda are a lot calmer than the residents of the United States in regard to these deadly fevers.
(www.theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/, October 6, October 9, October 14, October 16, 2014.)
by Chembiological