MaxedOutMama
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Silence On The Marburg Front
WHO has not issued a Marburg update since April 22nd, which covered cases through the 21st. At that time the Angolan Ministry of Health's figure was 266 total cases, 244 deaths. Of those, WHO said 253 cases were located in Uige. However, Recombinomics noted that cases were being excluded from the total, perhaps erroneously. Since then, silence.
However today I saw the report about a person dying from some sort of hemorrhagic fever in Bata, Guinea. This may be Ebola as the news is saying, or it might represent a spread of the type of Marburg found in Angola as Recombinomics observes. But Ebola has been found in nearby primates, so that is probably why they are assuming the Bata case is Ebola.
The Angolan outbreak seems more lethal than any previous outbreak of Ebola or Marburg.
However today I saw the report about a person dying from some sort of hemorrhagic fever in Bata, Guinea. This may be Ebola as the news is saying, or it might represent a spread of the type of Marburg found in Angola as Recombinomics observes. But Ebola has been found in nearby primates, so that is probably why they are assuming the Bata case is Ebola.
The Angolan outbreak seems more lethal than any previous outbreak of Ebola or Marburg.
