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Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases – WHO

Equatorial Guinea confirms eight more Marburg cases – WHO

Eight new confirmed circumstances of Marburg illness have been reported in Equatorial Guinea, the World Health Organization (WHO) mentioned on Thursday.

This brings the full of laboratory-confirmed circumstances to 9 and possible circumstances to twenty for the reason that outbreak of the lethal illness much like Ebola was declared in February. Twenty deaths have been reported.

Of the eight new circumstances, two have been reported from the Central African nation’s Kie-Ntem province, 4 from the Litoral province and two from Centre-Sur province, the WHO mentioned in an announcement.

The areas reporting circumstances are about 150 kilometres (93 miles) aside, suggesting a wider transmission of the virus, the WHO mentioned.

“The confirmation of these new cases is a critical signal to scale up response efforts to quickly stop the chain of transmission,” WHO Africa Director Matshidiso Moeti mentioned within the assertion.

Marburg virus illness is a viral haemorrhagic fever that may have a fatality fee of as much as 88%, in keeping with the WHO.

Symptoms embrace fever, fatigue and blood-stained vomit and diarrhoea. There are not any vaccines or antiviral therapies accepted to deal with it.

Neighbouring Cameroon additionally detected two suspected circumstances of Marburg illness final month regardless of proscribing motion alongside the border to keep away from contagion.

Source: www.anews.com.tr