About the Marburg virus.
It's pretty nasty, I understand. Like with up to a 60% fatality rate.
But it's not super transmissible; one has to be in contact with bodily fluids to get it. And let's hope it doesn't team up with Covid.
Deadly Marburg virus discovered for first time in west Africa
Personal note: I worked next door to a virus research lab for several years a few decades ago. When I chatted with some of the lab workers there, I asked if their facility ever worked with anything really dangerous. The usual answer I got was, one word, "Marburg". I never heard much more about it until I saw this article, which says it used to be found, sparingly, in East and Southern Africa. Now it recently popped up in West Africa. I hope they can contain it.Both the Marburg case and this year’s Ebola cases were detected in Guinea’s Gueckedou district, near the borders with Liberia and Ivory Coast. The first cases of the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic, the largest in history, also were from the same region in south-eastern Guinea’s forest region.
Marburg case fatality rates have varied from 24% to 88% in past outbreaks, depending on virus strain and case management, WHO said, adding that transmission occurred through contact with infected body fluids and tissue.
Marburg outbreaks start when an infected animal, such as a monkey or a fruit bat, passes the virus to a human. The virus then spreads from human to human by contact with an infected person’s body fluids.
Symptoms include headache, vomiting blood, muscle pains and bleeding through various orifices.