Angola Struggles to Contain Viral Outbreak....

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Angola Struggles to Contain Viral Outbreak
Angola Struggles to Contain Largest Recorded Outbreak of Ebola-Like Marburg Virus
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=102>

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LUANDA, Angola Apr 12, 2005 — Disease experts struggling to contain the largest recorded outbreak of the Marburg virus said Tuesday it will take weeks to determine whether a long-term crisis can be averted in Angola, where the disease already has killed at least 194 people.

The experts say they are recruiting tribal elders and musicians to help educate villagers who are hiding infected family members and have attacked aid groups sent to check the virus' spread in this southwest African nation.

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Marburg hemorrhagic fever is a rare but deadly disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids and can kill rapidly, usually about nine days after the first symptoms.

The Angola outbreak involves 214 known cases so far. The focus is on detecting infections early, isolating those infected, training local hospitals on infection control and removing dead bodies, which can spread the disease, said WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng.


MY NOTE: There is growing evidence that the Angolan version of Marburg has gone airborne. If this is true, the chances of stopping Marburg any time soon is very unlikely. Additionally, this virus has been infecting people since last October. The number of deaths that have been recorded in Angola as caused by unknown reasons should be re-examined as quickly as possible.

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1. Kick.

[EVDebs]

2. I read somewhere the Army has an vaccine and also saw this

Fast-Acting Vaccine Blocks Ebola Virus
Quicker protection may aid outbreak control

http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/514514.html

and also

Human Ebola vaccine trial begins

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031124/06

United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) would probably be very interested in preventive measures on the Marburg virus, just as with the ebola virus.

The book "The Hot Zone" was also very iffy on whether UV could or could not kill the virus. If aerasolized, as you suspect, this introduces even more questions, since aerasols are like weaponizing the virus. Google 'virus killed by UV' and see what comes up. Hmmm.

[smirkymonkey]

3. How would Marburg go airborne?

Wouldn't that be like AIDS going airborne? Anyone have a scientific explaination for that?

It seems as though if it is only transmissible via bodily fluids than it would be pretty containable - do you know how long the incubation period is? Or is this something that has been spread over a long period of time and is only now just showing up in humans?

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4. The incubation period for this version of Marburg appears to be....

...in the range of five to ten days long before symptoms begin to appear. The fever typically lasts 7 days. The next five to seven days produces a variety of symptoms to include the sudden onset of fever, chills, and malaise, with extreme prostration and weight loss. On the fifth day of fever, a maculopapular petechial (tiny--pinpoint or pinhead size papula) rash appears, and hemorrhaging begins.

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Other symptoms are headache, myalgia, and inflammation of the eyelid and eye membrane, intestine, and liver. Excessive effusions from internal organs occurs, followed by pulmonary interstitial edema and renal dysfunction. Renal failure is common. Some patients become jaundiced.

<http://tarakharper.com/v_marbrg.htm>

There have been NO survivors of this version of Marburg...it has been 100% fatal to date.

[Quakerfriend]

5. "Airborne" often occurs when microscopic bodily fluid (ie, saliva)

is 'sprayed'into the air, by a sneeze for example.

[Moderator]

6. locking

need to fix link...leads to LBN page.