🔆Marburg Virus Disease
✅WHO declared an outbreak of the highly-infectious Marburg virus in Ghana.
✅It’s a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever belongs to the same family as Ebola.
✅It has a fatality ratio of up to 88%.
✅Fruit bats are the key carriers of the disease.
✅Human-to-human transmission occurs through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs, or other bodily fluids of infected people and with surfaces contaminated with these fluids.
✅There are no specific vaccines or antiviral treatments to treat the disease. While the Ebola vaccine may potentially protect against a Marburg virus infection.