About this Post
» Title: Marburg—Similar to Ebola
» Posted: March 30th, 2005
» Author: LegoDoug
» Filed Under: Virii/Medicine.
» There are 4 responses.
» Read comments, respond or follow responses via RSS.
What’s a BLOG?
Simply put, a BLOG is a weB LOG. John Kovalic has my favorite take on what that means.
Search Me
Verse of the Day
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. (Ephesians 6:13, ESV)
Recent Comments
- Isunji on Thanksgiving, 2005: For What Am I Most Thankful?
- Wave on Hacking (Literally) the Xbox 360 for HDMI with Optical Digital Audio
- Ankit on Pagination Control While Printing in Flex: Unwrap mx.printing.FlexPrintJob’s Private flash.printing.PrintJob Variable
- Crystal Wilcox on Facebook on Beaten by Children
- LegoDoug on Beaten by Children
Categories
Web Goodness
Geekdom
MySQL Queries
39 queries. 1.021 seconds
Previous 
Next 
Comment Meta:
More Options ...
Categories
Tag Cloud
Blog RSS
Comments RSS
Last 50 Posts
Back
Void 
Life 
Earth 
Wind 
Water 
Fire 
Apparently its now up to 173, out of 200 victims. Thats an 86.5% mortality rate. I have also read reports (which seem to have been long in coming) that the outbreak has spread quite far beyond the initially affected region.
Although the spread of the Marburg virus has slowed, there have been 273 identified cases, one as recently as Wednesday. So far 253 people have died from the virus in Angola. thats 92.7% mortality.
Good thing this isnt an airborne virus.
July 30, and authorities expect they have the virus under control. However, there appears to be a recombinant variety of Ebola on the move in China.
See this article at http://www.recombinomics.com for starters.
From Citizen, among other sources: “LUANDA – Angola is officially free of Marburg fever after an outbreak of the Ebola-like disease that killed 227 of the 252 people it infected over the last year.”
That’s a 90% fatality rate, and a period of 8 months before the disease was under control. Bear in mind that’s in a sparsely populated area which was relatively easy to contain, and which was not connected to travel hubs which would rapidly spread the disease.
Imagine New York City, or Miami.