Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease, the World Health Organization has said, the first recorded in West Africa of the virus that is related to Ebola and, like COVID-19, passed from animal hosts to humans.
The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found in samples taken from a patient who died on August 2 in southern Gueckedou prefecture, the WHO said late on Monday 09 August 2021.
The discovery came just two months after the WHO declared an end to Guinea’s second outbreak of Ebola, which started last year and killed 12 people.
In Geneva, the WHO said it considered the threat “high” at the national and regional level, but “low” globally.
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