www.wtvr.com/2014/10/08/marburg-virus-deaths/

KAMPALA, Uganda — Three days after a
fatal case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever
was diagnosed in Uganda, 99 people are
under isolation in four different locations
across the East African country, as field
epidemiologists and surveillance officers
continue to closely monitor all people
who got into contact with only victim.
More than 60 health workers form the
bulk of people under isolation after they
were identified as having contact with a
30-year old male health worker who died
September 28 of Marburg — an Ebola-like
hemorrhagic fever.
“As of today, a total of 99 contacts are
under follow up. All the contacts are still
in a healthy condition,” Dr. Jane Ruth
Aceng, director general for health services
in Uganda, said in the latest update on the
outbreak on Tuesday.
“The National Taskforce through the field
epidemiologists and surveillance officers
continues to closely monitor all people
who got into contact with this confirmed
case,” she noted.
The dead health worker was a
radiographer in a hospital in the capital of
Kampala and also at Mpigi District Health
Center IV, places where authorities say he
made contact with colleagues.
Aceng revealed that at least 11 people
have tested negative after results from
Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI)
indicate that although the suspects had
developed signs and symptoms similar to
that of the disease, they did not contract
the virus.
“However, for those who continue to have
signs, tests will be run again after three
days,” Dr. Aceng said.
Among those who tested negative include
are the brother of the deceased; two
health workers from a children HIV/AIDS
hospital; seven persons from Mpigi
Health Center IV; and two relatives of the
deceased who participated in the burial.
“When he felt ill on September 17, he
traveled back to Mpigi for treatment since
he felt more comfortable with a facility
that he had worked with for a long time, a
duration the disease was spread,” said a
statement by health authorities last
Sunday.
Marburg virus was first identified in 1967,
when 31 people became sick in Germany
and Yugoslavia in an outbreak that was
eventually traced back to laboratory
monkeys imported from Uganda. Since
then the virus has appeared sporadically,
with just a dozen outbreaks on record,
many — including the current situation —
involving just a single patient.
Marburg virus causes symptoms similar
to Ebola, beginning with fever and
weakness and often leading to internal or
external bleeding, organ failure and death.
The death rate runs as high as 80 percent,
although it was significantly lower in the
initial outbreak when patients were cared
for in relatively modern, European
hospitals.
The most recent outbreak, also in Uganda,
in 2012, killed four out of 15 patients,
according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
On Tuesday, CDC Director Thomas
Frieden pointed to the most recent
Marburg case as an example of how a
deadly virus could be contained.
“We’ve done important work in Uganda to
help the Ugandans better have a
laboratory network so they can find cases,
have a response network with disease
detectives who can follow up and have an
emergency operations center to trace
individual cases,” Frieden said.
The extensive contact tracing included
tracking an embalmer back to Kenya,
where he was tested and found not to be
infected with Marburg.
“I mention this, because oftentimes in
public health, what gets noticed is what
happens and it’s hard to see what doesn’t
happen,” Frieden continued, noting that
there have so far been no additional cases.
“That may not make headlines, but it does
give us confidence that we can control
Ebola in West Africa.”

all these africans and their monkeys... Causing diseases anyhow... West africa is still finding it difficult to eradicate ebola, nd kenya is there bringing another one to join... They had better kept that disease within themselves before it starts spreading out again. Nonsense!!!!

Make dem stay dia oo
No near here at all
Ahn ahn
We have more than enuf poverty, corruption and terrorism virus

Abeg ooo