The Marburg virus is increasing in nations of Central Africa.
According to representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO), this virus is more harmful and lethal than Corona and Ebola.
The WHO has recently called a conference to talk about the virus's spread.
The danger of the Marburg virus sickness was highlighted by WHO experts before to the conference.
According to authorities, the Marburg virus sickness has a fatality rate of up to 88% and causes hemorrhagic fever.
It is caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola.
The first instances of this kind of sickness were recognized in 1967, during two significant concurrent epidemics in the German cities of Marburg, Frankfurt, and Belgrade (Serbia).
Yet, numerous Central African nations, including Ghana, are experiencing Marburg virus epidemics.
The epidemic, according to the researchers, followed lab tests on imported from Uganda Sarcopythecus aethiopus African green monkeys.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Angola, and other countries afterwards reported outbreaks and isolated cases.
Two occurrences were recorded in 2008 among visitors to a cave in a Ugandan colony of russet bats.
According to the WHO website, those who contract the Marburg virus sickness experience a high fever.
The first victims of its illness were miners or cave dwellers in Rossett's bat colonies.
According to the study conducted there, after a person has contracted the virus, the blood fluids of Marburg infected individuals can spread through close contact with intimate regions of other persons.
In addition, the illness can spread through patient clothing, such as beds and bedspreads.