The World Health Organization is focusing on the “Marburg” virus, after Equatorial Guinea declared its first outbreak of the disease, after the death of at least 9 people in Qui Ntim province.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization held an urgent meeting on “Marburg”, known as the “deadly disease”, which kills about 90 percent of those infected with it.
The British newspaper “Daily Mail” stated that the organization brought together health experts from all over the world to discuss ways to develop vaccines or treatments for the “Marburg” virus.
She added that the meeting took place in light of growing fears and warnings that “the world may be surprised by the disease that cannot be cured.”
“It could take months for effective vaccines and treatments to become available,” said members of the Marburg Virus Vaccine Consortium (MARVAC).
The World Health Organization stated: “Further investigations are underway. Advanced teams have been deployed in the affected areas to trace contacts, isolate and provide medical care to people who show symptoms of the disease.”
The (MARVAC) team has identified, so far, 28 vaccine candidates to be effective against “Marburg”, highlighting that it will focus on 5 of them to find out their effectiveness.
This virus is considered “highly dangerous” and, similar to Ebola, initially appears in bats and spreads among people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected people or surfaces.
The rare virus was first identified in 1967, after it led to simultaneous outbreaks in laboratories in Marburg, Germany, and Belgrade, Serbia.
What do we know about Marburg?
Marburg hemorrhagic fever is a highly fatal disease caused by a virus of the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
The two viruses appear, under an electron microscope, in the form of extended threads that twist to form foreign bodies at times, and those threads are the ones from which the name “family of filamentous viruses” was inspired.
There is a complete similarity, from a clinical point of view, between “Marburg” fever and “Ebola” hemorrhagic fever, although the two viruses that cause them are different.
There is no vaccine or specific treatment for this disease.
Ecological studies are being undertaken to identify the natural reservoir for both Marburg and Ebola, and there is data indicating that bats play a role, but much work remains to be done to be able to definitively determine the natural cycle of the disease. According to the World Health Organization website.
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