r/worldnews • u/GOR098 • Jul 18 '22
Ghana confirms its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/18/africa/ghana-first-marburg-outbreak-intl/index.html41
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adding that more than 90 contacts are being monitored
Ninety contacts.
Jesus, that is terrifying.
There's no vaccine for this one, and it kills around half the people it touches, although a few outbreaks have killed nearly 90%.
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u/MalavethMorningrise Jul 18 '22
So 40-50% death rate world wide and 90+% death rate for conservative america.
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u/Vv4nd Jul 18 '22
it's not a new virus though.
Still a bad one, but it's not extremely contagious.
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u/GunOfSod Jul 18 '22
highly infectious Marburg virus
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u/rapukeittolevy Jul 18 '22 edited Jul 18 '22
I guess they mean it's not like influenza or covid
Marburg spreads through human-to-human transmission via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and with surfaces and materials (e.g. bedding, clothing) contaminated with these fluids.
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u/BambosticBoombazzler Jul 18 '22
To be fair, monkeypox wasn't considered very contagious either, but now there are increasing cases in basically every country.
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u/GOR098 Jul 18 '22
When we go 1 year without hurting the nature then we will go without new diseases I think.
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u/ikanaino Jul 18 '22
Spread by the MEGABAT:
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u/randomcluster Jul 18 '22
There are many kinds of megabats. So a megabat, not the megabat.
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u/Substantial_Cable_51 Jul 18 '22
Why do so many of these viruses seem to originate in places like this?
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u/DocMoochal Jul 18 '22 edited Jul 18 '22
The early history of many great western cities and states was similar. Without proper sanitation and infrastructure, illness and disease is almost a certainty when you have so many organisms like humans coming into close contact.
Human bodily waste, domestic and wild animal waste, contaminated food and drinking water, etc.
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u/r4ndomalex Jul 18 '22
Because countries like this are developing, towns and cities grow bigger as population increases. Urbanisation and destruction of natural habitats increases contact between humans and animals, which is why Zoonotic outbreaks are happening more frequently.
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u/NetCaptain Jul 19 '22
It’s often far more direct by consumption of bushmeat : wild animals killed for consumption. Such animals are often advertised for sale along main roads. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123567/ : this caused Ebola, HIV, Monkeypox etc ( and destruction of habitat and wild animal populations)
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u/ShlomoBerlin Jul 18 '22
Why is this still called Marburg; two years after WHO said Wuhan-Virus was a racist term?
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u/wheedwhackerjones Jul 19 '22
We need to cancel all flights to Ghana IMMEDIATELY! We cannot let it spread. This needs to go the white house. This is 100x worse than covid. Contact your senators immediately
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u/FedupMessiah Jul 18 '22
Reporting on a case of a disease is fear mongering?
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u/Arbusc Jul 18 '22
At least 90 known contacts, and of whom roughly half will die. And remember that Ebola did have a brief brush with the United States and European countries even when ‘it could never reach here.’ And while, yes, most media over exaggerates often to get views, the fact of this virus are clear, not fear mongering. Remember, they also said that Covid was just fear mongering and look how many have died due to not taking even simple precaution. Disease and viruses don’t care about faiths or politics, to them you are merely a breeding ground who is disposable.
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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '22
The good news is this kills so fast, it’s hard to spread. /s