High fever, headache, muscle pain, sunken eyes, fatigue; These symptoms may be due to Marburg virus

 

 

In the African country of Rwanda, 12 people have died due to the Marburg virus. Confirmed late last month, the virus can damage the walls of blood vessels, leading to internal bleeding and death. The fatal virus, which causes bleeding and organ failure, has a mortality rate of 88 percent. It is a very deadly virus similar to Ebola.

Those who died from the virus were health workers working in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Marburg virus is transmitted from animals to humans. It is reported that fruit bats are the main carriers of the virus. The virus is spread through contact with the body fluids of infected people.

The virus was first reported in 1967 in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and Belgrade, Serbia. Since then, cases of the virus have been reported in several countries, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. In 2008, tourists who visited a cave in Uganda contracted the disease.