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Вирус Марбург был впервые обнаружен в городе Марбург в Германии в 1967 году.
The World Health Organization and the government of Guinea have officially confirmed the first death from Marburg disease.
The disease is caused by a virus similar to the Ebola virus.
Like the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, it is transmitted from animals to humans.
The man, who has not been named, fell ill on July 25 and died on August 2 in a village near the town of Gukedu, where the borders of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone meet.
He was being treated for malaria and tests for the Ebola virus were negative.
Post-mortem examination of tissue samples confirmed the presence of the Marburg virus in his body.
Marburg disease was first discovered in 1967 in the German city of Marburg.
The source of infection was green monkeys imported from Africa for experiments.
31 cases of the disease and seven deaths have been recorded.
Marburg outbreaks have been reported in Sudan, Kenya, Angola, Uganda, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The current case is the first in West Africa.
Mortality rates range from 24 to 88 percent.
The virus affects the digestive organs and the central nervous system, making it difficult to treat.
The first symptoms are high fever, severe headache and weakness.
Bats are thought to be the primary vectors of this rare infection.
Infection often occurs after visiting caves or abandoned mine sites where colonies of these animals are present.
The Marburg virus is transmitted from person to person through airborne droplets, through bodily secretions, and through physical contact with the infected person or surfaces they have touched.
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It is not yet known whether the “patient zero” has managed to infect anyone else.
The risk is heightened by the fact that a large market is held in Gukedu every Sunday.
On Monday, the WHO assessed the risk level as high for West Africa and low for the rest of the world.
The alarming news came just two months after the organization announced the end of another Ebola outbreak in Guinea, which had claimed 12 lives since February of this year.
“The potential for spread of the Marburg virus requires that it be stopped at its source,” said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.
“We welcome the high level of preparedness and rapid response of Guinean medics. We are working with them based on their experience in fighting Ebola, which spreads in a similar way,” he added.
Ten WHO epidemiologists are already in Guinea.
Three members of the deceased’s family and his doctor are under constant surveillance.
The search for his other contacts is underway.
A vaccine against Marburg disease has not yet been developed.