GENEVA, Switzerland - Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday, the first recorded in West Africa of the lethal virus that's related to Ebola and, like Covid-19, passed from animal hosts to humans.
The discovery comes just two months after the WHO declared an end to Guinea's second outbreak of Ebola, which started last year and claimed 12 lives. The case was detected in a village in a forested region close to the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia. After being initially treated at a local clinic and tested for malaria, the patient died "in the community", the WHO said. Ten WHO experts, including epidemiologists and socio-anthropologists, are already in the field to support national health authorities.
Three family members of the deceased and a healthcare worker have been identified as high-risk close contacts and are being monitored, while investigations are under way to identify the source of the infection and any other possible contacts, the WHO said.
Nananihimik yung mga bats. Bat nyo kasi pinapakialamanan.. anubaaaa 88% fatality rate. Jusko.
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