Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Pandemic Covid-19 in the world is not over, now it appears virus Marburg which is transmitted from animals and is called similar to the Ebola virus. There are a series of facts that reveal the origin of the virus that has claimed many victims.
Previously, the World Health Organization (WHO) sent a team to Guinea, West Africa to track down people who had close contact with the recently deceased Marburg virus patient.
Spread in Marburg, Germany
The Marburg virus is considered a highly virulent disease, with a mortality rate of up to 88 percent. The virus belongs to the same family as the virus that causes the Ebola virus disease.
Two large epidemics that occurred simultaneously in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1967, became the beginning of the spread of the disease.
The virus first spread to humans when a worker in a laboratory in Germany was reported to have been in contact with an African green monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) imported from Uganda. The monkey is thought to be the host of the virus.
This virus is a very dangerous pathogen. And part of the Filovirus or also known as Ebola. In 2008 two cases of spread were reported in travelers visiting a cave inhabited by the Rousettus bat colony in Uganda.
The host or reservoir of the virus is known to be fruit bats that are widely distributed in mainland Africa. This mammal will carry the Marburg virus and will not be known because this virus does not make bats sick.
In fact, it is through animals that the virus can attack and spread to mammals such as monkeys and even humans. WHO noted, the spread of this virus may have started because of the slaughter of bats for consumption reasons.
Spread through direct contact with patients
Human infection with Marburg virus disease was initially the result of prolonged contact with mines or caves inhabited by colonies of Rousettus bats.
Once a person is infected with the virus, Marburg can be spread from person to person through direct contact through broken skin or mucous membranes with the blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of an infected person, and with surface objects. For example, bedding, clothing contaminated with this liquid.
Symptoms of Marburg Virus
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