VIVA – Guinean Ministry of Health reports, cases virus Marburg (MVD) to the World Health Organization (WHO) on August 6, 2021, which was first discovered in Gueckedou Prefecture, Nzerekore region.
The village where the case is located is near the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia. It is the first known case of Marburg virus disease in Guinea and in West Africa.
The Marburg virus, has similarities to the highly contagious dengue fever and is similar to Ebola virus. Symptoms include headache, vomiting blood, muscle aches and bleeding through various orifices.
The discovery of a case of Marburg virus infection in Guinea comes just two months after the WHO announced the end of the country’s second Ebola outbreak that began last year and claimed 12 lives. How can this virus spread so quickly? Following history Ebola virus adapted from the site www.news-medical.net.
History of Ebola Virus Development and Discovery of Marburg Virus which is a family of Filoviridae
The discovery of the Marburg virus
The medical scientific community first discovered this family of viruses when the Marburg virus emerged in 1967. During that time, laboratory workers with unusual and severe illnesses were admitted to a hospital in Marburg, Germany. Subsequent investigations found that the direct source of the virus was green monkeys imported from Africa used for vaccine research.
The monkeys were also sent to Frankfurt in Germany and Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia. They were immediately euthanized, and the epidemic was contained, although a total of 31 human cases and a generation of secondary transmission to health workers and their family members occurred. Nevertheless, the high human mortality, unusual morphology of the virus, and failure to identify its natural history has many people frightened and very worried about potential future threats.
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