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Marburg virus outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea & Tanzania


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The symptoms of the "non-identified illness" were nose bleeds, fever, joint pain and other ailments that caused death within a few hours, the head of health for the district, Ngu Fankam Roland, said in a statement.

 

 

 

Hopefully this will be dealt swiftly by the authorities.

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given these very sparse details and im too lazy to research more about this breaking news, there is a bit of comfort in knowing this kills you in hours after symptomatic onset

 

If it remains asymptomatic for weeks until it starts showing and kills you in hours (w COVID u can tell its not as high of a mortality rate bc of how it causes olfactory dysfunction d/t inflammation days before the heavy breathing/dyspnea), pathology that can kill you very quickly tend to not be very viral agents (aka they dont transmit very well).

 

Hoping this is simply an isolated case in New Guinea.

 

Source: med student

 

 

 

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Every time I log in here there's a new health scare. Over it...

 

It does sound like Ebola tho?

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8 minutes ago, MingYouToo said:

Hoping this is simply an isolated case in New Guinea.

 

Source: med student

 

 

 

it literally says Equatorial Guinea four times in the post, New Guinea is somewhere else boo

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5 minutes ago, abrantino said:

it literally says Equatorial Guinea four times in the post, New Guinea is somewhere else boo

Semantics. Im too tired i just wanna cackle on this side. Point is I pray for wherever place this incident happened in. My bad.

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High and rapid mortality usually goes hand in hand with poor infectious capacity, so this is definitely not a new pandemic y'all. Let's hope the government of Equatorial Guinea is able to prevent it from spreading and killing more in the country.

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1 hour ago, Bicassie said:

rip to those people 

i hope it does not spread

 

Something that kills people in hours cannot really spread too far tho

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yeah if something kills too fast then there’s less chance of transmission

 

source: i play Plague Inc. 

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