The organization said that the virus responsible for the two deaths, called Marburg, is a “highly contagious” virus.
According to the WHO website, Marburg causes highly contagious viral hemorrhagic fever, and it belongs to the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease.
Marburg is transmitted to humans from fruit bats and spreads between humans through direct contact with infected people’s bodily fluids, surfaces, and materials.
Symptoms of the disease include a high fever, severe headache and malaise.
Many patients develop severe hemorrhagic symptoms within seven days, according to the organization, and death rates in infections varied from 24 percent to 88 percent in previous outbreaks, depending on the strain of the virus and the quality of dealing with the case, according to the organization.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that deaths occur between the eighth or ninth day of infection, preceded by severe bleeding and loss of a large amount of blood.
The CDC also indicated that, on the fifth day of infection, a non-frictional rash appears on the patient’s chest, abdomen or back, and noted that diagnosing the disease “may be difficult” because its symptoms are similar to other infectious diseases such as malaria or typhoid fever. .
There are no approved vaccines or antiviral treatments to treat the virus, but supportive care, rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids, and treatment of certain symptoms improve chances of survival.
A range of potential treatments, including blood products, immunotherapies and drug therapies, as well as candidate vaccines, are being evaluated with Phase 1 data, the World Health Organization said.
The organization said that outbreaks and sporadic cases of Marburg have been reported in Africa in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
There is no kinship between the two deaths, and they have not met each other with the disease.
The health authorities in the African country are monitoring contacts and contacts with the two cases, looking for possible symptoms of infection.
The CDC says Marburg virus is “genetically unique in zoonosis”.
The Washington Post says that once someone is infected, the virus can spread easily between humans through direct contact with infected people’s body fluids such as blood, saliva or urine, as well as transmitted through surfaces and materials, and bodies can remain infectious when burial.
The first cases of the virus were identified in Europe in 1967.
Two major outbreaks in Marburg (from which the virus takes its name) and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Serbian Belgrade, led to the initial recognition of the disease, according to the CDC.
And the “CDC” stated that the injured were taking news of a type of African monkey, or tissue parts of it.
This is only the second time that Marburg cases have been detected in West Africa.
Cases of Marburg have previously been reported elsewhere in Africa, including Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and the largest outbreak of the disease killed more than 200 people in Angola in 2005.
The CDC notes that cases outside Africa are “rare”.
But in 2008, a Dutch woman died of Marburg disease after visiting Uganda. An American tourist also fell ill after a trip to Uganda in 2008, but recovered.
The two travelers had visited a well-known cave inhabited by fruit bats in a national park.
The CDC said some of Marburg’s “experimental treatments” had been tested in animals, but had never been tried in humans.
The World Health Organization says virus samples collected from patients for study are a “severe biological hazard”, and laboratory tests should be performed under “maximum biocontainment conditions”.