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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States warned of the spread of the deadly Marburg virus in African countries.
And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it decided to send a team of experts in order to contribute to containing this epidemic, which belongs to the virus family that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
The same source confirmed that the expert team of the National Center for Emerging and Animal Infectious Diseases will go specifically to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea in order to contribute to containing Marburg and responding to the increasing outbreak of this virus.
This comes at a time when several countries, including the United States of America, Kuwait, the Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, called on their citizens to avoid traveling to Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea during this period, and also called on those who are there to take precautions and avoid contact with the injured and follow health measures.
And the World Health Organization had announced the registration of the first infection with the Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea last February, before the country’s authorities announced the registration of 9 confirmed infections and 20 possible infections, all of which were later announced dead.
In turn, Tanzania announced the registration of 8 cases of the deadly virus, of which 5 died, according to the World Health Organization.
It should be noted that the Marburg virus belongs to the same family of viruses as the Ebola virus, and causes similar symptoms such as fever, muscle pain, kidney and liver dysfunction, and sometimes bleeding.
This virus is usually spread, according to experts, by contact with the blood, secretions, organs, or any other fluids from his body, or contaminated surfaces or materials.