Outbreak of the Marburg virus in Ghana: In the African city, two people were reported dead last night after contracting the deadly Marnburg virus – a contagious disease from the Ebola virus family.
About a week ago, the World Health Organization announced a suspicion of an eruption of Marenburg in Ghana. Two cases suspected of being infected with the virus were then reported. Tonight, as mentioned, two deaths were reported.
According to a report in Here News, the assessment in the health system in the West African country is that 98 people are currently in solitary confinement on suspicion of infection.
It is a virus from the Ebola virus family, which is transmitted from fruit bats and spreads through the transfer of body fluids. There is still no suitable drug to treat it.
It was first identified in 1967 among laboratory workers in Germany who were exposed to monkeys brought from Uganda. In the first outbreak, the virus caused death at a rate of about twenty-five percent. In later years, when it erupted in African countries, the death rate reached as high as 80 percent.