Deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever breaks out in Uganda

a reply to: marg6043

If you haven't read the Hot Zone, I highly recommend it. The last chapter he goes there to Kitum cave and explores it.

Surely a Halloween story of the viral kind.

originally posted by: nukedog
Welp. That's it then. Taxed with Ebola it looks like the S just HTF for west Africa. Also, this one is airborne iirc. Countdown until it hits US soil starts now.

Are you certain that Marburg is airborne?

a reply to: crazyewok

Isn't all of this suspiciously driven to you?
FAKE outbreaks all over,REAL ones(maybe) in Africa. WHO knows?

originally posted by: marg6043
This is interesting, I find out in my research that while ebola now is considered to have 90% of deadly rates, Marburg is considered to ne 100% deadly, meaning either all the people that have contacted malburg doesn't live of is not enough infected to really rate it

slightly wrong. It can be anywhere from 20-95% with Marburg.

a reply to: crazyewok

Right now as 2014 is about the same as ebola with a testing vaccine called AVI-7288 that has proven successful on infected primates up 100%.

originally posted by: lostbook

originally posted by: nukedog
Welp. That's it then. Taxed with Ebola it looks like the S just HTF for west Africa. Also, this one is airborne iirc. Countdown until it hits US soil starts now.

Are you certain that Marburg is airborne?

I could have swore I read that. I threw in iirc as a disclaimer. Let me see what I can find.

I guess not. Don't know what to beeline anyway