At least nine people have died of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa. All of the fatalities were severely infected. Fever and vomiting blood And there are still 16 suspected cases, which the Thai Ministry of Public Health has monitored and monitored for travelers from high-risk countries. Because the Marburg virus is one of the 13 dangerous contagious diseases. According to the Communicable Diseases Act 2015, the mortality rate is as high as 88%.
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The PPTV news team inquired about the situation of the Marburg virus to Prof. Wasan Chantrathit, head of the Medical Genome Center. Ramathibodi Hospital It has assessed the virus, saying it is an epidemic that is unlikely to spread as widely as COVID-19. Because people who are infected will have severe illness and will obviously be infected. Can’t travel like COVID-19, where some people have no symptoms or have few symptoms, 9 people who died as a result of going to the funeral of the deceased for unknown reasons and then catching the body, causing the virus to come Burg and died.
While all close people are already in the control of the state. which the Marburg virus no treatment Because there are no drugs and vaccines, protection is to avoid contact with infected people or risk groups. because they do not communicate through breath The origin of the disease came from bats. Therefore, entering the cave must be careful because it may be infected by ticks or bat droppings. In Thailand, Prof. Wasan further explained that he had done research with the Tropical Medicine Hospital. to study whether ticks brought by bats carry the virus to prepare in Thailand as well
Symptoms of Marburg virus
- acute headache
- bleeding
- diarrhea
- internal organ failure
- internal bleeding The bruises on the body are not blisters.
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Marburg virus death rate as high as 88% ?
Prof. Vasan stated that because in some areas where the outbreak may be remote, it makes treatment difficult, but when the World Health Organization (WHO) has arrived. In this case, only 3 days may reduce the mortality rate through symptomatic treatment. In fact, the mortality rate of the disease is 22-88%, but in very severe cases, it can die in 8 days because the disease has an incubation period of 2-12 days. The high mortality rate like this definitely cannot spread the whole world like COVID-19.
Prof. Wasan further explained that the Marburg virus It’s not a new virus, it’s been around for 10 years. It’s been endemic for a long time in Africa, but it hasn’t been named yet. After that, green monkeys from Africa were brought to Germany for experimentation. And there were injuries and deaths, so it was named “Marburg” which is the name of a German city
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Marburg virus shares the same genetic code as Ebola virus. It was first discovered after 31 people were infected and seven died during the same 1967 outbreak in Marburg and Frankfurt. Germany and Belgrade, Serbia.
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