“We are aware of nine cases so far, including eight deaths. We expect additional cases in the coming days as disease surveillance improves. » The statement by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is worrying in nature.
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Indeed, Marburg causes a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever. It is transmitted by certain bats and belongs to the same family as the Ebola virus. Its mortality rate rises to almost 90%. The UN agency said it had informed its member states of an “outbreak of suspected Marburg virus disease in the Kagera region”, located in northwestern Tanzania.
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“Source of the outbreak unknown”
This region had already been the scene of a first outbreak in Marburg in March 2023, which lasted almost two months and resulted in nine recorded cases including six deaths, according to the WHO. The WHO also declared the national risk “high” due to several worrying factors, including the fact that “the source of the outbreak [soit] currently unknown.
She added that the risk of regional spread was also “high”, due to the “strategic location of Kagera”, a region through which Tanzanians transit on their way to “Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The announcement of this new epidemic comes less than a month after the WHO declared the end of an epidemic of Marburg fever in neighboring Rwanda, which lasted three months and left 15 dead.
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