I listened to the audio book "The Hot Zone" a non fiction account of the origins of Ebola and Marburg
and other hemorrhagic diseases and an outbreak at a lab in Virginia back in 1989.
If you haven't read or listened to it I recommend it.
Which leads to this news story.
For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.
The situation with the Marburg virus entered uncharted territory on March 21, when Tanzania announced an outbreak of the disease in addition to the one in Equatorial Guinea, on the other side of the African continent.
Five people have died out of eight confirmed cases as of April 6, according to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), which issued a health alert warning that doctors in the US should “be aware of the potential for imported cases”, even if the risk of the disease reaching the US is low.
The situation in Equatorial Guinea currently seems the most worrying. The World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alert on February 25 after the discovery of several suspected deaths from Marburg in two villages in the north of the country in early January.
Since the first cases appeared, there have been 15 confirmed cases of Marburg in Equatorial Guinea. According to a report by the country’s health ministry, eleven of those patients died just days after symptoms of the disease appeared – vomiting, diarrhoea, nausea and high fever.
Sociopaths love to brag of their deeds. Bill Gates and his wife were smirking about the "Next pandemic will get their attention" on live TV. Oddly that YouTube video didn't "Disappear" like so many other embarrassing tweets and such.
ReplyDeleteBilly boy has not been in the News lately, eh? Too busy doing deals?
May you live in interesting times is a Chinese Curse. Interesting times indeed. What a distraction to America if we were locking down for Malburg while China was "inviting" Taiwan and its massive computer chip factories back into the fold? There isn't as much resistance in Taiwan to "Reunification" as described by our propaganda Media (oh, did I repeat myself here?).
Anybody remember how many F150's and such were sitting in lots complete EXCEPT for a Computer Chip shortage?
Even my freaking coffeemaker has a chip. And as things are made to fail in a year or so....
Anybody want to BET Bill has a "Vaccine" for Malburg ready and patented just like he did before COVID was deployed?
Is Bill Gates planning on being a Chinese Satrap? Interesting the Chinese have a pictogram for it （古波斯帝國各省的）總督
A satrap (/ˈsætrəp/) was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.[2]
A satrap served as a viceroy to the king, though with considerable autonomy. The word came to suggest tyranny or ostentatious splendour,[3][4] and in modern usage refers to any subordinate or local ruler, usually with unfavourable connotations of corruption.[5]
A satrapy is the territory governed by a satrap.
Interesting times indeed.
"vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and high fever" ... there are other symptoms including, IMHO, the most horrific one - bleeding from all of your orifices, including, from reports I read a few years ago, your eye sockets.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/symptoms/index.html (I know, I know, it's from the CDC, so based on recent history, who knows if this report can be trusted as reliable information.)
I read "The Hot Zone" sometime in the 00's. I got it from my local library. Terrific read. Additionally, it is available as a pdf download after searching for "The Hot Zone"pdf.
Have a nice day.
Nemo
The first outbreaks of Ebola were so virulent that even touching a corpse spread the fever, and it had a 90%+ kill rate. Nobody knows how it disappears, or where the virus lives between outbreaks.
DeleteEbola comes from the Congo. According to Aesop there are something less than twenty BLIV 4 beds in the USA so when marburg/ebola hits more than that hunker down and eat shoe leather.
ReplyDeleteI read the Hot Zone back in '14, around the last Ebola outbreak that featured people making it into the US and nurses wandering around the country with it.
ReplyDeleteThat book had the highest pucker factor that I can recall.
There has been a new disease "threat" every year since 2001
ReplyDeleteSorry, I prefer to keep my calendars bull$#!+ free.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I saw where the continent of Africa was not affected much by WuFlu. Seems they're getting ready for Round 2 - if at first you don't succeed ...
ReplyDeleteI think Africa was using a lot of hydroxychloroquine for malaria control, so they were already using a treatment.
DeleteAfrica has been flooded with quinine for decades. Covid never had a chance. .
DeleteFloats in and out; see below. And Ebola showed up again during the Apocalypse and has been closed out as of last year. Note on Ebola, recovered patients have antibodies. Everyone needs a hobby. Since 9/11, mine's infectious disease. You can take online courses from Ivy League med schools for free but without credit.- Mississloppigarro
ReplyDelete06 Apr 2023 Marburg virus disease - Equatorial Guinea (06): (KN,LI,CS)
23 Mar 2023 Marburg virus disease - Equatorial Guinea (05): (KN,LI,CS) WHO
22 Mar 2023 Marburg virus disease - Tanzania: (KG)
10 Mar 2023 Marburg virus disease - Equatorial Guinea (04): USA, embassy health alert
07 Jul 2022 Marburg virus disease - Ghana (01): susp, RFI
19 Sep 2021 Marburg virus disease - Guinea (04): resolved, WHO
10 Aug 2021 Marburg virus disease - Guinea (02): (GU) conf, WHO
24 Jan 2020 Marburg virus disease - Sierra Leone: bat
20 Dec 2018 Marburg virus disease - Sierra Leone: bat
29 Aug 2018 Marburg virus disease: testicular persistence
17 Dec 2017 Marburg virus disease - Uganda (08): resolved
07 Nov 2017 Marburg virus disease - Uganda (QW,QP), Kenya (TN) WHO
01 Nov 2017 Marburg virus disease - Kenya (02): (TN) NOT
31 Oct 2017 Marburg virus disease - Kenya (TN) ex Uganda: (QW, QP) susp.
28 Oct 2017 Marburg virus disease - Uganda (06): (QW, QP)
18 Oct 2012 Marburg virus disease - Uganda: (KA), outbreak confirmed
17 Dec 2009 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - USA ex Uganda 2008 (02)
05 Oct 2009 Ebola & Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Egyptian fruit bat - W. Africa
30 Jan 2009 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - USA ex Uganda 2008
10 Jul 2008 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - The Netherlands ex Uganda (02)
09 Jul 2008 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - The Netherlands ex Uganda
13 Nov 2007 Hemorrhagic fever - Uganda (Bundibugyo): Marburg susp., RFI
31 Jul 2007 Viral hemorrhagic fever - Uganda (Kamwenge): Marburg susp., RFI
13 Oct 2006 Marburg hemorrhagic fever, 2005 - Angola: IFRC final report
22 Mar 2005 Hemorrhagic fever - Angola: Marburg virus confirmed (02)
21 Mar 2005 Hemorrhagic fever - Angola: Marburg virus confirmed
21 Mar 2002 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - Congo, DR
09 Feb 2001 Marburg hemorrhagic fever, 1967 to the present (03)
07 Feb 2001 Marburg hemorrhagic fever, 1967 to the present (02)
06 Feb 2001 Marburg hemorrhagic fever, 1967 to the present
05 May 2000 Marburg hemorrhagic fever - Congo, DR: confirmation
17 May 1999 Hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus - Congo, DR (05)
14 May 1999 Marburg virus, persistence
12 May 1999 Hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus - Congo, DR (04)
12 May 1999 Marburg virus, suspected - Zimbabwe, Namibia
07 May 1999 Hem. fever, Marburg virus - Congo, DR: Country alerts
05 May 1999 Hemorrhagic fever, Marburg virus - Congo, DR
Beating Marburg virus outbreak: Ghana’s journey to victory
ReplyDeletehttps://www.afro.who.int/countries/ghana/news/beating-marburg-virus-outbreak-ghanas-journey-victory
While nasty and ugly Marburg/Ebola won't pose too great a threat unless they succeed in lengthening the latency period where it's infectious but not symptomatic. I have no doubt there are criminals working for the Gov trying to do exactly that. If they succeed then the Plannedemic they will unleash on us will be truly epic.
ReplyDeletehttps://patents.justia.com/patent/20200392188
ReplyDeleteCant patent something that occurs naturally in nature. So yea, its a bio weapon. The above is where the vaccine is being patented. I’m sure there is already one on the virus itself if someone wants to look. I’m busy planting. Good luck!
Not to worry. The Fauch has our backs.
ReplyDeleteThe "A" is silent.
DeleteThe problem with Marburg/ Ebola is that it is reasonably hard to transmit. Mainly, it is transmitted though blood, semen, and plasma. It has a very short incubation period before the person crashes. It primarily attacks the capillary walls in you body; which causes you to bleed out of every orifice (even your skin, towards the end). It also loves to attack the liver. It actually "eats" and forms crystals in the liver as it spreads.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Marburg only has a fatality rate of about 80% (still way worse than COVID). Treatment is massive amounts of blood/ plasma transfusions; along with basic palliative care/ fluids. For those that survive, you can expect rapid organ failure over the next few years; blindness; and will probably need a liver transplant.
An outbreak here, in the USA, would rapidly get out of hand. Doctors, Paramedics, EMT's, and Nurses, etc.; would have to be paid massive sums of money to even show up to work. There is no cure; and there would be no way for grocery stores, gas stations, and other essential businesses to properly protect their low paid employees. Simple liability insurance would become un-affordable for them; and they would have to shut down.