What is the Marburg virus? Canada's travel advice as outbreak confirmed

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Canada is advising travellers to avoid non-essential travel to a specific province in Equatorial Guinea currently experiencing an outbreak of the infectious Marburg virus. CTV News looks at what we know about the disease and the latest outbreak.

"It's not unusual that we see, a week or two later, that there are more cases that appear and that emerge," Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases expert at Toronto's University Health Network, told CTV's Your Morning on Monday.

From there, the virus can spread between humans through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids of those who are infected, as well as contaminated surfaces and materials. Symptoms can start between two and 21 days after infection, the WHO says, and usually come fast with a high fever, severe headache and discomfort.

The average fatality rate of the disease is approximately 50 per cent, but the WHO says mortality in past outbreaks has varied between the low 20s and upward of 88 per cent, as was the case during aMost of the outbreaks reported by the WHO since 1967 have resulted in seven or fewer deaths.in September, after it was confirmed the previous July. Three cases were confirmed in total, of which two were fatal.

 

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Let us take a moment to realize what the Media is saying is the carrier. Lock downs v2.0 is coming. See everyone in 2025. Just in time to see Trudeau win **another** term.

STATE ACTOR continues to act in capacity of alarmist to justify unconstitutional government actions.

2020-2022 was just to practice run! Wait for it!

The one that Bill Fates and pharma came up with ! Stop this and arrest people

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I hope there's another lockdown so government can give me free money again👍

More bullshit folks

Why is it named after a town in Germany? I thought that was 'racist.' 'Hateful.' 'Mean,' etc. It was for China. 🧐

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Spanish authorities detect first suspected case of Marburg diseaseSpain has detected its first suspected case of Marburg disease, a deadly infectious disease that has led to the quarantining of more than 200 people in Equatorial Guinea, health authorities in the Spanish region of the Valencia said on Saturday. This is REALLY not good news. Here we go again 🫠🫠 Imagine needing to kill millions in controlled viral warfare because your woke WEF totalitarianism is so terrible no one would ever accept it.
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