GENEVA (Sputnik) – Guinea has confirmed its first-ever case of the Marburg virus, which causes heavy hemorrhagic fever, and a World Health Organization (WHO) team is already working on the ground, WHO said on Monday.
Last week, the African country’s health ministry announced that a suspected case had been confirmed on its territory.
The first confirmed patient has passed away from the disease and an effort is underway to locate people who were in contact with him. The country’s health authorities are starting a campaign to raise awareness and mobilize public support to stem a potential outbreak.
The Marburg hemorrhagic fever, which is very close to Ebola, is a highly-lethal disease that has no specific treatment. Egyptian fruit bats are believed to be natural carriers of the virus, which can be transmitted to people as well as from human to human.
The virus is named after the German city of Marburg, whose laboratory saw the first recorded outbreak in 1967, when some of its employees caught the disease after contact with infected grivet monkeys.
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