OOH BOY SEE THIS!. Graphic photo: Another Deadly Virus Surfaces - Marburg Haemorrhagic Fever (MHF)
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With West Africa, and indeed the rest of the world, still reeling from
the deaths brought about by the Ebola virus, the recent death of a
Ugandan hospital technician of another deadly viral disease, Marburg
Haemorrhagic Fever (MHF), has brought fresh fears Uganda’s Ministry of
Health disclosed that a total of 99 people who had been in contact with
the victim had been moved to quarantine. These contacts are being
monitored for signs and symptoms of the disease after tests confirmed
that the 30-year-old man who worked as a radiographer in a Kampala
hospital died of the disease.see photo below
The man was said to have had a headache, abdominal
pains, diarrhoea and vomited blood before he died.Marburg virus was
first identified in 1967, after simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg (from
which the disease takes its name) and Frankfurt both in Germany,
Belgrade, Serbia and Yugoslavia. It was later traced back to monkeys
imported from Uganda for laboratory work. Since then, the virus has
appeared sporadically, with just a dozen outbreaks on record. The most
recent outbreak, also in Uganda, in 2012, killed four out of 15
patients, according to the United States of America’s Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
source: Tribune
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