Global health chiefs are in a race against time to develop a vaccine for a virus that is a deadlier version of Ebola and appears to be spreading in Central Africa.
Panic is setting in about Marburg virus, which can initially masquerade as a cold before causing an explosion of horrifying symptoms, including organ failure and bleeding from multiple orifices.
An outbreak of the extremely deadly virus - which kills up to nine in 10 sufferers - was declared in Equatorial Guinea Monday after nine deaths and 16 suspected cases.
Last night neighboring Cameroon declared two suspected infections in a pair of teenagers with no travel links to Equatorial Guinea - indicating it is more widespread than official case counts suggest.
Marburg causes a hemorrhagic fever similar to that of Ebola. After incubating in the body for several days, if not weeks, it causes a devastating eruption of inflammation and blood clotting around the body that causes organs to stop working.
Marburg spreads between people when someone comes into contact with an infected person's broken skin or mucous membranes in the eyes, nose, or mouth.
Marburg also spreads through blood or body fluids (urine, saliva, sweat, feces, vomit, breast milk, amniotic fluid, and semen) of a person who is sick with or died from Marburg virus disease.
It can also be spread sexually or via touching objects contaminated with body fluids from a person who is sick.
It can take from two days to three weeks from exposure to the first appearance of symptoms - before a rapid and gory deterioration to their health.
Called the incubation period, this is the time where the virus has entered the body and begins to replicate, but has not yet caused symptoms.
When the virus enters the body, it targets immune cells - which protect the body from invaders like Marburg.
As a result, it causes the body to not properly activate white blood cells' response to the virus, allowing it to spread further in the body and evade a majority of a person's natural protections.
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Stop flights, keep it there, isolate it, and eradicate it; Don't send it here on purpose like the last time, as been reputed IMO.
Seems a lot of those "Bugs" were man-made experiments in some funded labs, right? While at it, eradicate those Labs, stop playing with creating animal to man or whatever, viruses, bacteria's, chemical/biological warfare BS, etc...Yes, some due to wild animal eating, bats/gorillas/monkeys, etc.? Feed them alternatives, educate, and we know plenty of wonderful Missionaries are sent there to help the people, prisoner's, etc.!!! Seems breeding ground in Africa for animal to people nasties, yikes!!!
Frankly, no one wants any more experimental Jabs to have many folks become an extension of their experiments like last bout Covid ordeal, IMO!! Most of the experiments seem terrorist plots in nature, keep it there, fix stupid committed by God knows who??? WHO? Supposed it's an animal-borne RNA virus of the filovirus family, and now too many animal to people viruses in 21st century, more, why now; it's been known about for some time, surge now? So why unleashed more so now? Trust, is out the window with all this nonsense, IMO!
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