MADRID 6 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The latest balance published by the Rwandan Ministry of Health has raised this Saturday to twelve the number of people who have died from the Marburg virus, which has infected a total of 46 people in the country to date, of which 29 are being treated. treated and five are already recovering, according to the newspaper ‘Kigali Today’.
Given this situation, the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, met with the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on the sidelines of the 19th Francophonie Summit in Paris to address the follow-up and joint containment of the Marburg virus in the country, where Health declared an outbreak of disease due to this hemorrhagic fever on September 27.
Marburg virus is transmitted to humans from fruit tree bats and has a mortality rate of between 25 and 90 percent depending on how quickly it is treated. Symptoms of the infection include headache, vomiting blood, and muscle pain.
There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the virus, which has similarities to Ebola. To increase the survival of those infected, maintenance therapy (oral or intravenous rehydration) and symptomatic treatment are used.
In Africa, previous outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea.
The WHO already indicated this Thursday some infection prevention measures “fundamental to stop the spread of the (mentioned) disease”, at the same time they reported the delivery – together with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) — of more than 500 clinical care kits and infection prevention and control supplies as outbreak control efforts intensify in Rwanda.
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