In keeping with the World Well being Group (WHO), a suspected Marburg virus outbreak in Tanzania has claimed at the very least eight lives. The primary well being physique on the earth additionally reported 9 suspected circumstances within the Kagera area. The virus, a extremely deadly hemorrhagic fever with as much as 88% mortality price, belongs to the identical household because the Ebola virus and spreads by means of contact with contaminated bodily fluids or contaminated supplies. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that extra circumstances will doubtless be found as illness surveillance improves. In the meantime, samples from two sufferers are present process affirmation testing at Tanzania’s nationwide laboratory. The WHO warned that the outbreak poses a excessive regional threat as a result of Kagera’s position as a transit hub close to Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nonetheless, the worldwide threat stays low. At present, there aren’t any accepted vaccines or remedies for the virus.
Supply: Aljazeera