With West Africa, and indeed the rest of the world, still reeling from the deaths brought about by the Ebola virus, the recent death of a Ugandan hospital technician of another deadly viral disease, Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever (MHF), has brought fresh fears, Tribune Newspaper reports.
Uganda’s Ministry of Health disclosed that a total of 99 people who had been in contact with the victim had been moved to quarantine. These contacts are being monitored for signs and symptoms of the disease after tests confirmed that the 30-year-old man who worked as a radiographer in a Kampala hospital died of the disease. The man was said to have had a headache, abdominal pains, diarrhoea and vomited blood before he died.

Marburg virus was first identified in 1967, after simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg (from which the disease takes its name) and Frankfurt both in Germany, Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia. It was later traced back to monkeys imported from Uganda for laboratory work. Since then, the virus has appeared sporadically, with just a dozen outbreaks on record. The most recent outbreak, also in Uganda, in 2012, killed four out of 15 patients, according to the United States of America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Source: http://www.nta-news.com/2014/10/graphic-photo-another-deadly-virus.html

my god!

This one na Ebola senior brother o. See wetin the thing do the guy mouth! FG should be proactive now. All these deadly viruses emanate from monkeys.
#killallmonkeys!

This got to be a joke. If not...
I comment my reserve for now.

dunkem21:
This one na Ebola senior brother o. See wetin the thing do the guy mouth! FG should be proactive now. All these deadly viruses emanate from monkeys.
#killallmonkeys!

Relax, Marburg virus has a fatality rate of about 40-55%; its not more deadly than Ebola but they belong to the same family--Filoviridae. They are both single stranded RNA viruses but Ebola is more deadly.

Sparklesebony:
This got to be a joke. If not...
I comment my reserve for now.

Ebola was not a joke, so is Marburg. The 30 years old technician died early this week. Precisely on Monday, in fact it is a lethal viral infectious disease. May God save the world

Ploy:


Ebola was not a joke, so is Marburg. The 30 years old technician died early this week. Precisely on Monday, in fact it is a lethal viral infectious disease. May God save the world

Forget. Marburg's pathogenicity is not sharp as Ebola, so it can't be spread fast. This type of news is meant to scare people. Again, Forget.

hod898:

Forget. Marburg's pathogenicity is not sharp as Ebola, so it can't be spread fast. This type of news is meant to scare people. Again, Forget.

I can't argue with b'coz I failed Integrated Science in my JSS3 exams. Seriously, with what I read it's an Ebola-like virus

Ploy:


I can't argue with b'coz I failed Integrated Science in my JSS3 exams. Seriously, with what I read it's an Ebola-like virus

Lol. It's very much like Ebola virus because both are in the same family known as Filoviridae. They are both single-stranded, negative sense RNA viruses and both carry out reverse transcriptase. Both are morphologically similar but genetically distinct, that's why the symptoms are alike but the fatality significantly different. Ebola is more life-threatning.

hod898:

Lol. It's very much like Ebola virus because both are in the same family known as Filoviridae. They are both single-stranded, negative sense RNA viruses and both carry out reverse transcriptase. Both are morphologically similar but genetically distinct, that's why the symptoms are alike but the fatality significantly different. Ebola is more life-threatning.

now I'm a bit relive

Ploy:


now I'm a bit relive

The image attached with d post kinda gimme d creeps. But I guess I am a bit relieved also.

@Hod898 Thanks for the explanation.