What is Marburg?

Marburg is a deadly haemorrhagic virus closely related to Ebola and comes from virtually the same area of ​​Africa. He is in the same family as Ebola and shares some similarities to Lassa and Dengue. Marburg can spread by body fluids, including blood and sweat. As a result, it is particularly susceptible to transmission in the hospital environment, where insufficient barriers and sterilization leave nurses and doctors with a high risk of closing Marburg from their patients. It is also assumed that contaminated primates are spreading. Marburg was first identified in the focus that Frankfurt and Marburg, Germany and Belgrade, Yugoslavia, everywhere at the same time in 1967.

Symptoms of Marburg occur rapidly, and infected show intense fatigue and boLesti head. Much of those who infected Marburg begin bleeding within a week after contamination, with almost all fatal cases include internal and external bleeding. While the mortality of Ebola seems to have fallen somewhat among the earliest cases and more modern outbreaks, Marburg seems to have become fatal. While the initial focus had a mortality rate of less than 25%, the focus in the new millennium has a mortality rate above 80%. This may be partially attributed to the location of the outbreaks - the initial focus occurred in industrial European countries, while the following cases occurred primarily in Africa.

It is difficult to diagnose Marburg because its external symptoms carry an asilic similarity superficially to fever malaria and typhoid. It is not unusual that the first few cases of Marburg are unnoticed and people to be checked for the presence of the virus, only after the focus has been identified. Although there is no medicine for Marburg, the hospital usually puts those diagnosed in the support karaNtény and attempts to help the body fight the virus. Those who survive often deal with widespread complications that may include inflammation of different organs and hepatitis.

Although less known than his cousin Ebola, Marburg is by no means less deadly. For the time being, it seems to be rarer than Ebola and will only be contained in Africa. In the future, we hope that successful vaccines will be developed for both Ebola and Marburg fever.