Most patients suffering from this rare virus cause death.(Photo: DAILY MAIL).
Marburg virus attacks humans through an intermediate host of fruit or monkey bats. Dengue fever caused by this virus can be transmitted directly from person to person through blood and fluid, so its mortality rate is hundreds of times higher than that caused by Dengue dengue.
There are currently no vaccines and specific treatment drugs for Marburg viral hemorrhagic fever.
In 1967, the virus was first recorded in an outbreak in Germany and the former Yugoslavia by monkeys imported from Uganda. The last time the disease occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998-2000 with a mortality rate of 80%.
Currently, countries have discovered patients are cooperating with WHO to conduct isolation and epidemic prevention measures. Because hemorrhagic fever caused by Marburg virus is one of the most infectious and easily outbreaks