According to the World Health Organization, the Marburg virus causes a severe and fatal hemorrhagic fever that often kills everyone who gets it. Initial symptoms include severe headache, high fever, diarrhoea, stomach pain and vomiting.
The World Health Organization said that in the early stages of the disease, it is very difficult to distinguish from other tropical diseases that cause fever, such as Ebola and malaria, but after five days, many patients begin to bleed under the skin, in internal organs or from an opening of the body such as the mouth. And eyes and ears.
The organization added, that there is currently no treatment for this disease, so patients are monitored and treated with fluids, and studies are currently trialing antibody therapies and antiviral drugs, but they can only be given as part of trials, according to the World Health Organization..
According to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”, infected patients die Marburg virus After that from nervous system failure the death rate is 50%, according to estimates by the World Health Organization, and death rates in previous outbreaks in Marburg vary from 24% to 88% of those infected.
The newspaper said, the virus is initially transmitted to humans through exposure to mines or caves inhabited by bats, and then spreads through direct contact with infected body fluids or surfaces and materials contaminated with these fluids..