Equatorial Guinea confirms outbreak of Marburg virus, 9 dead

I guess we shouldn't worry, they just announced a vaccine not even 45 days ago. Whew, worst case I guess we get Emergency Use Authorization and someone makes billions as they mandate another vaccine.

That is worst case of course, hopefully this one burns out as normal.... unless someone messed with it and gave it some gain of function.


Marburg vaccine shows promising results in first-in-human study

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Monday, January 30, 2023

A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, could someday be an important tool to respond to Marburg virus outbreaks.

This first-in-human, Phase 1 study tested an experimental MARV vaccine candidate, known as cAd3-Marburg, which was developed at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC). This vaccine uses a modified chimpanzee adenovirus called cAd3, which can no longer replicate or infect cells, and displays a glycoprotein found on the surface of MARV to induce immune responses against the virus. The cAd3 vaccine platform demonstrated a good safety profile in prior clinical trials when used in investigational Ebola virus and Sudan virus vaccines developed by the VRC.

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Equatorial Guinea "declares today the health alert for a Marburg hemorrhagic fever in the province of Kie-Ntem and in the (neighboring) district of Mongomo," said the minister.

A "containment plan has been put in place" in close collaboration with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) "to deal with the epidemic" in this area covered by dense equatorial forest in the eastern part of the country's mainland, which also includes two main islands.

The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by fruit bats and is spread in humans through direct contact with the body fluids of infected persons, or with surfaces and materials.

mRNA Marburg vaxx will save you. Just need a booster every week.

I wonder if the 'vaccine' will make one three times more likely to get Marburg again and again

originally posted by: nugget1
I wonder if the 'vaccine' will make one three times more likely to get Marburg again and again

Unfortunately this one has a pretty high IFR but because of that it's R naught is low. So if it spreads rapidly it will turn out to be a GoF Marburg variant.

At least Marburg is a proper virus instead of a hyped up flu.

On the list of things, I may do this week, seeing a fruit bat, or coming in DIRECT contact with the bodily fluids of a Marburg Virus infected person has to be extremely low.

The Marburg virus is transmitted to humans by fruit bats and is spread in humans through direct contact with the body fluids of infected persons, or with surfaces and materials.

a reply to: infolurker

I am sure it will be in the US in not time, they will bring it across the border, watch for the news, watch for how worried the democrat administration will be, watch how they are looking for something anything to get national elections by mail in ballots again.

Does anyone know who will get the patent?

I don't want to miss the gravy train again.

a reply to: montybd


The vaccine was made by the government, Walter Reed, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Vaccine Research Center, the vaccine is not mRna, has been around for a while for emergency only.