The World Health Organization (WHO) reports a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania's Kagera region, resulting in eight deaths. While Tanzanian officials initially disputed the report, the WHO stands by its findings. This marks the second Marburg outbreak in Kagera this year.
The World Health Organization says an outbreak of what is suspected to be Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania. Joe Scarpelli has the details and more in Health Matters for Jan. 15, 2024., which is caused by a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.
WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Tanzanian health officials disputed the report hours later, saying tests on samples had returned negative results., the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bedsheets.
Symptoms include fever, muscle pains, diarrhea, vomiting and in some cases death from extreme blood loss. There is no authorized vaccine or treatment for Marburg. This is the second outbreak of Marburg in Kagera since 2023. It comes exactly a month after Rwanda, which shares with a border with Kagera, declared its own outbreak of the disease was over.
Rwandan officials reported a total of 15 deaths and 66 cases in the outbreak first declared on Sept. 27, with the majority of those affected health care workers who handled the first patients.Pardoned Jan. 6 participants to go free on Trump’s 1st day — some already are
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