Marburg Possibly Emerging In Uganda?

It is like hundreds of horses at the gates, pushing to break free and begin the race:

55 people believed to have come into contact with a Marburg victim in Kween district have been placed under surveillance, the health minister Jane Ruth Aceng has said.

A 50-year-old woman from Chemuron village in Moyok parish in Moyok sub-county in Kween district died of Marburg on October 17.

Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) is caused by the Marburg virus, a rare but severe type of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, which affects both humans and non-human primates like monkeys and baboons.

Speaking at a press conference on Sunday afternoon at the ministry of health headquarters, Aceng said that they have listed 55 people for a follow up as they could have come in contact with the deceased during the burial ceremony.

She says 13 of the 55 people have completed the 21 day follow-up from the time of the death of the probable case, while the rest remain still under close monitoring.

Aceng stated that Uganda has capacity to handle the outbreak and is working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the neighbouring countries to contain the disease.

“The probable case that passed away, passed away on the 25th of September. The confirmed case passed away on the 13th of October. In between so many things could have happened that we don’t know. So until we have managed to round up people and follow them up for the 21 days and then another 21 days and there is nothing that is when we can be comfortable.

And in this particular case, the suspect case is the little child who came from another village, another sub-county but also had signs and symptoms similar to that of Marburg. That is a suspect case. The probable case in this case is a 42-year-old man who passed away when we did not take samples.”, said the minister.

Aceng specifically warned people who are staying near forests and caves and across the borders to be very vigilant of their health and contacts.

They are monitoring them all from home, so the second one feels sick you know they are going to beat feet to the US to get treatment.

The problem with these African diseases is that there is a wild reservoir out there which seems to periodically bloom, and facilitate the transmission to humans. Some people speculated Ebola was very similar to a plant virus and that it was possible bats or some other animal were periodically eating a plant that fruited and infected them, and that set the infections in motion in multiple areas simultaneously. That is why they are warning people who live in forests and caves to watch their own health – they expect other cases. So even as they watch these cases, there may be others out there in the boondocks that were independently infected, unrelated to the initial patients.

Now imagine if this happened at a time when there was no money available for public health programs to swoop in and help organize the responses to these cases. That is exactly what will happen when the economic bottom drops out.

It really blows your mind when you think of past pandemics like the 1918 flu, which lacked the interconnectedness of the world, and which hit a population that was far less stressed and immune-compromised, and economically compromised than humans will be in the coming economic collapse. If that could sweep across the globe and infect hundreds of millions, what could a similar infective agent do today?

Our rabbit problems may resolve themselves quite quickly when the time comes.

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