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✅Virus In News : “Marburg Virus”🦠🦠.

- Natural hosts : Egyptian fruit bats.
- The rare,often fatal haemorrhagic disease.

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“Marburg Virus 🦠”
🧵:

✅Region of influence:
- Recent outbreak in Tanzania and Guinea.
- For the first time, it was detected in Germany and Serbia in 1967.
- Current cases revolves around countries of Africa like, DR Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Angola, Guinea.

✅ Transmission Route:
- Human to Human transmission is possible.
- Direct contact with blood,secretions, and bodily fluids.
- also can be transmitted via contaminated items like sheets and clothes.

✅ Symptoms of disease:
- High fever
- Headache
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Sometimes severe bleeding

✅ fatality rate:
Highly fatal disease , can can go extremely up to 75% of death fatalities.

✅ Treatment:
- No vaccine or approved anti-viral treatment available.
- Only supportive care can treat the disease.

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