WHO convenes 'urgent' meeting over outbreak of Marburg virus — one of the world's deadliest diseases that kills 90% of patients and has no curE
Daily Mail
February 14, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an urgent meeting Tuesday amid an outbreak in Africa of one of the deadliest diseases known to man.
The leading health body brought experts from around the world together to discuss how to ramp up the development of vaccines and therapeutics for Marburg virus.
There are growing fears that the world could be caught off guard by the currently untreatable infection that kills up to 88 percent of the people it infects.
The virus, considered a more dangerous cousin of Ebola , has killed nine people in Equatorial Guinea in the Central African nation's first outbreak. More than a dozen others are believed to be infected.
The highly-infectious pathogen - which causes some sufferers to bleed from their eyes - has been touted as the next big pandemic threat, with the WHO describing it as 'epidemic-prone'.
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Marburg ain't nothing nice.
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