![]() Microscopic image of an Ebola virus (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) This outbreak lasted for six weeks and, while there were 170 high-risk contacts, only one case was confirmed, according to Reuters (opens in new tab). The case was a male from south-western Guinea, who developed a fever, headache, fatigue, abdominal pain and gingival hemorrhage before ultimately dying of the disease. The first known Marburg virus outbreak in West Africa was confirmed in August 2021. The case fatality rate in the first outbreak (1967) was 24%, but it was 83% in the 1998-2000 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 100% in the 2017 outbreak in Uganda, according to the WHO. ![]() Marburg virus symptoms are similar to Ebola in that both viruses can cause hemorrhagic fever, meaning that infected people develop high fevers, and bleeding throughout the body that can lead to shock, organ failure and death, according to Mayo Clinic (opens in new tab). (Image credit: ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) (opens in new tab)Īccording to the World Health Organization (WHO) (opens in new tab), the Marburg virus (opens in new tab) was first identified by scientists in 1967, when small outbreaks occurred among lab workers in Germany who were exposed to infected monkeys imported from Uganda. ![]() ![]() The Marburg virus causes hemorrhagic fever in humans and non-human primates. ![]()
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