More details on the Guinea Marburg case from @WHO:
The man had symptoms from July 25, attended a small health favility on August 1 and died the next day in hos community.
Four high risk contacts are without symptoms. Further contact tracing is going on
who.int/emergencies/di…
The man had symptoms from July 25, attended a small health favility on August 1 and died the next day in hos community.
Four high risk contacts are without symptoms. Further contact tracing is going on
who.int/emergencies/di…
Some context on Marburg:
Case fatality rate of 24 - 90 %
No specific therapeutics available
“In the early course of the disease, clinical diagnosis of MVD is difficult to distinguish from other tropical febrile illnesses, because of the similarities in the clinical symptoms”
Case fatality rate of 24 - 90 %
No specific therapeutics available
“In the early course of the disease, clinical diagnosis of MVD is difficult to distinguish from other tropical febrile illnesses, because of the similarities in the clinical symptoms”
This is the first Marburg case in Guinea
The village is “in a remote forested area located near the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia”
Guinea “has a fragile healthcare system which is further exacerbated by multiple disease outbreaks, recurrent epidemics” and COVID-19
The village is “in a remote forested area located near the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia”
Guinea “has a fragile healthcare system which is further exacerbated by multiple disease outbreaks, recurrent epidemics” and COVID-19
This suggests “a high risk at the national level, requiring an immediate and coordinated response with support from international partners”
Risk for region: high, given close connections with Liberia and Sierra Leone
“risk associated with the event at the global level is low”
Risk for region: high, given close connections with Liberia and Sierra Leone
“risk associated with the event at the global level is low”
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