The recent cases of highly contagious Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), a deadly hemorrhagic fever has put the world on a health alert, with scientists racing to find an immunisation
The highly virulent Marburg Virus Disease , a deadly hemorrhagic fever with no known vaccine or treatment, has put the world on a health alert, and scientists were racing to find an immunisation.
The areas reporting cases are about 150 km apart, suggesting wider transmission of the virus, it said.Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said the confirmation of the new cases was a critical signal to scale up response efforts to urgently stop the chain of transmission and avert a potential large-scale outbreak and deaths.
Since then, outbreaks have happened in a few African nations, but less often than with Ebola. The biggest was in Angola in 2005, with 374 cases and 329 deaths. The mortality rate of the virus is estimated to be between 24 percent and 88 percent, depending on the outbreak. The bulk of instances happened in these three nations, however cases connected to travel also happened in seven other nations, including the US and the UK.
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