Coronavirus
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The next pandemic: Marburg?
A cousin of Ebola, Marburg can kill nine out of ten people it infects, and international travel has taken it from Africa to Europe twice in the past 40 years. The virus has just hit Equatorial Guinea for the first time ever – what does this mean for the rest of the world?
Case fatality rate: Marburg is one of the deadliest viruses we know of, killing as many as 88% people it infects.
Incubation period: The incubation varies from just two days to up to 21 days, though some studies have suggested the virus can incubate for as long as 26 days.
Symptoms: Marburg virus begins with a fever, severe headache and muscle pains. This is often followed by watery diarrhoea, stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, accompanied by extreme exhaustion and lethargy. Many people go on to develop severe viral haemorrhagic fever, and in severe cases have blood in their vomit and faeces, and may bleed from their nose, gums and vagina. The onslaught of the virus is so extreme that most people die 8-9 days after infection, often because of extreme loss of blood.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswor…
8 confirmed cases in Tanzania, 161 contact being monitored...
- Looking forward to seeing who still says I'll never wear a mask, I'll never take a vaccine when something like this hits.yuekit
- It will really separate the serious anti-vaxxers from the posersyuekit
- looking forward to seeing you in a full-face respiratorhotroddy
- You're wishing for my death? Seems a bit over the top hotroddy hahayuekit
- I'm not wishing death on the anti-vaxxers, I tried to change their mind. But their idiocy does put a lot of people at risk.yuekit
- HotKnobby's pure ignorance & vitreal has no bounds.utopian
- No youkit, I would never wish your death. Just wondering when you're going all in on this? https://www.carlroth…hotroddy
- ^ https://sprayez.com/…hotroddy
- Right. Fuck the FFP masks. Full-on hazmat suit for me, thx.Continuity
- At least it'll be a short pandemic. There's that.zardoz
- flol true!Continuity
- I've seen TWD, I know what happens nextGardener
- It's not very contagious and requires contact with infected fluids. Unless that changes, not a massive concern.ETM
- A virus that kills the host won't spread much. Potentially devatating, sure... but Covid's subtlety was its successProjectile
- Trolls be trollin'toemaas
- hey it's just common food poisoning. Spreading 6g is more danjerousBeeswax