Hang on, isn’t Marburg closely related to Ebola? Luckily won’t spread far because it’s not airborne but I feel very sorry for anyone who catches it, it’s incredibly grim.
Well, I guess it’s time to wall off Germany. Auf wiedersehen!
Marburg will never become a pandemic. Far too deadly
That was here in Hamburg at the Central train station and nothing is confirmed yet.
“Guess who’s back, back again, Marburg’s back (in Germany) tell a friend… guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back…”
Wild it’s back in Germany 60 years later
How the hell did that get to Germany
The Germans dispatched teams in hazmat suits to spray the hell out of every surface in rail stations the 2 infected people passed through. I hope this works.
Oh shit
>People become infected through direct contact with the body fluids of those infected, such as blood, but not through the air.
A little comforting, I feel for the people infected. We definitely have PTSD from Covid, let’s not overreact.
I’m tired, boss.
The keyboard biological experts are arriving in 3, 2, 1…
Here most of us thought climate collapse was gonna take us out.
Anyone have side bets on repeated pandemics?
This is the virus that you hope doesn’t mutate to spread easily. Almost 90% fatality rate back when it started.
Can we PLEASE go ONE DAY without some sort of bad news
The article says development of a vaccine was paused years ago but…
Nothing else to add; but hopefully some progress is being made there.
Controversial opinion: Doctors who travel to treat patients with dangerous infectious diseases should quarantine before returning home.
bro if anyone wants an interesting book to read on Marburg and Ebola i can highly recommend “The Hot Zone”. it’s a great book that basically puts you into the perspective of the first outbreak with patient 0
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The irony, it’s named from the German town Marburg, and now it’s coming home?
Uh oh. I’ve read The Hot Zone many many times…
Back to where it was discovered
If you’re interested in this topic I highly recommend the book Spillover by David Quammen. It’s simply amazing.
Nows the time to bring back Verdansk
Well shit
Back to the office everyone!! Now! We gotta collaborate!
Fuck that. Marburg is so scary.
keep that shit OVER THERE! Please and thanks🙏🏽.
There has been a worrying amount of Laboratory accidents associated with this virus.
I need to watch Millennium again.
I strongly recommend reading the book The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston!
The book covers the Reston monkey incident of 1989 in Virginia (near Washington D.C.). In this case, monkeys imported from the Philippines were infected with an Ebola-like virus (**Ebola and Marburg are both filoviruses and have very similar properties**).
During the Reston monkey incident, **a very high percentage of monkeys died (>66%** – I can’t recall the exact number). **The virus was capable of airborne transmission. Interestingly, six monkey caretakers tested positive for the virus, but none of them died.** A military team **arrived over two days, euthanized about 400 monkeys**, and then treated themselves to huge McDonald’s meals after the operations.
The book also describes Marburg, Ebola, and several other viruses through individual stories. I read it on a flight over East Africa, and it was the only flight in my life where I couldn’t eat the onboard meal because of the intense nausea—the descriptions in the book are truly gut-wrenching.
Here are some facts I found fascinating and remember:
* **An Italian monkey trader released sick monkeys on an island in the northwest of Lake Victoria (one of the Ssese Islands). This island has likely become a fascinating place for viruses (or even immunity).** * There were several expeditions to Kitum Cave, as both a boy and a man were infected with the Marburg virus (likely from the cave). Despite taking samples, no virus was found in the cave. * In the 1970s, up to 20 percent of the female population in Kinshasa were sex workers. This, along with the Kinshasa Highway, contributed to a massive spread of HIV toward East Africa. In the US and Germany, HIV-1 subtype B is particularly prevalent, and it spread significantly through blood donations from Haiti in the 1970s and early 1980s. * **The Ebola-Zaire virus had a mortality rate of up to 90% during one outbreak—one of the deadliest viruses ever.** * **Ebola viruses “liquefy” internal organs and cause severe bleeding, a horrifying and brutal disease progression.** * Bats are considered the likely natural reservoirs for filoviruses, but despite extensive research, the virus has never been directly found in them. * **Symptoms of Ebola and Marburg often begin like the flu but worsen quickly, making early detection difficult.** * Ebola is classified as a “Level-4” virus, the highest security level for dangerous viruses that have no cure and are deadly upon direct exposure. * During the Zaire Ebola outbreak in the 1970s, two doctors were flown to Central Congo to investigate an Ebola outbreak in remote villages. There, they found nearly abandoned villages where the virus had run rampant. Some villages had implemented radical isolation measures and had no contact with neighboring communities out of fear of the virus.
The book is incredibly gripping. I devoured it in two days while in Kenya—I recommend it 10/10.
Wow, this virus has an interesting history.
I’m an epidemiologist and just audibly said “oh shit”
> “close to Ebola, which is the same sort of virus”
Thanks, Yahoo, for that highly technical breakdown
Here. We. Go?!? Omg.
Time to read The Hot Zone again!
I used to go to Marburg to the bars up there, but that was back in 1969. There was a really cool one underground there somewhere, but I don’t remember what street it was on. It was a nice quiet little town back then.
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There’s that feeling again
Not want. Real nasty one…
Hang on, isn’t Marburg closely related to Ebola? Luckily won’t spread far because it’s not airborne but I feel very sorry for anyone who catches it, it’s incredibly grim.
Well, I guess it’s time to wall off Germany. Auf wiedersehen!
Marburg will never become a pandemic. Far too deadly
That was here in Hamburg at the Central train station and nothing is confirmed yet.
“Guess who’s back, back again, Marburg’s back (in Germany) tell a friend… guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back…”
Wild it’s back in Germany 60 years later
How the hell did that get to Germany
The Germans dispatched teams in hazmat suits to spray the hell out of every surface in rail stations the 2 infected people passed through. I hope this works.
Oh shit
>People become infected through direct contact with the body fluids of those infected, such as blood, but not through the air.
A little comforting, I feel for the people infected. We definitely have PTSD from Covid, let’s not overreact.
I’m tired, boss.
The keyboard biological experts are arriving in 3, 2, 1…
Here most of us thought climate collapse was gonna take us out.
Anyone have side bets on repeated pandemics?
This is the virus that you hope doesn’t mutate to spread easily. Almost 90% fatality rate back when it started.
Can we PLEASE go ONE DAY without some sort of bad news
The article says development of a vaccine was paused years ago but…
[https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/marburg-vaccine-shows-promising-results-first-human-study](https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/marburg-vaccine-shows-promising-results-first-human-study)
Nothing else to add; but hopefully some progress is being made there.
Controversial opinion: Doctors who travel to treat patients with dangerous infectious diseases should quarantine before returning home.
bro if anyone wants an interesting book to read on Marburg and Ebola i can highly recommend “The Hot Zone”. it’s a great book that basically puts you into the perspective of the first outbreak with patient 0
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The irony, it’s named from the German town Marburg, and now it’s coming home?
Uh oh. I’ve read The Hot Zone many many times…
Back to where it was discovered
If you’re interested in this topic I highly recommend the book Spillover by David Quammen. It’s simply amazing.
Nows the time to bring back Verdansk
Well shit
Back to the office everyone!! Now! We gotta collaborate!
Fuck that. Marburg is so scary.
keep that shit OVER THERE! Please and thanks🙏🏽.
There has been a worrying amount of Laboratory accidents associated with this virus.
I need to watch Millennium again.
I strongly recommend reading the book The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston!
The book covers the Reston monkey incident of 1989 in Virginia (near Washington D.C.). In this case, monkeys imported from the Philippines were infected with an Ebola-like virus (**Ebola and Marburg are both filoviruses and have very similar properties**).
During the Reston monkey incident, **a very high percentage of monkeys died (>66%** – I can’t recall the exact number). **The virus was capable of airborne transmission. Interestingly, six monkey caretakers tested positive for the virus, but none of them died.** A military team **arrived over two days, euthanized about 400 monkeys**, and then treated themselves to huge McDonald’s meals after the operations.
The book also describes Marburg, Ebola, and several other viruses through individual stories. I read it on a flight over East Africa, and it was the only flight in my life where I couldn’t eat the onboard meal because of the intense nausea—the descriptions in the book are truly gut-wrenching.
Here are some facts I found fascinating and remember:
* **An Italian monkey trader released sick monkeys on an island in the northwest of Lake Victoria (one of the Ssese Islands). This island has likely become a fascinating place for viruses (or even immunity).**
* There were several expeditions to Kitum Cave, as both a boy and a man were infected with the Marburg virus (likely from the cave). Despite taking samples, no virus was found in the cave.
* In the 1970s, up to 20 percent of the female population in Kinshasa were sex workers. This, along with the Kinshasa Highway, contributed to a massive spread of HIV toward East Africa. In the US and Germany, HIV-1 subtype B is particularly prevalent, and it spread significantly through blood donations from Haiti in the 1970s and early 1980s.
* **The Ebola-Zaire virus had a mortality rate of up to 90% during one outbreak—one of the deadliest viruses ever.**
* **Ebola viruses “liquefy” internal organs and cause severe bleeding, a horrifying and brutal disease progression.**
* Bats are considered the likely natural reservoirs for filoviruses, but despite extensive research, the virus has never been directly found in them.
* **Symptoms of Ebola and Marburg often begin like the flu but worsen quickly, making early detection difficult.**
* Ebola is classified as a “Level-4” virus, the highest security level for dangerous viruses that have no cure and are deadly upon direct exposure.
* During the Zaire Ebola outbreak in the 1970s, two doctors were flown to Central Congo to investigate an Ebola outbreak in remote villages. There, they found nearly abandoned villages where the virus had run rampant. Some villages had implemented radical isolation measures and had no contact with neighboring communities out of fear of the virus.
The book is incredibly gripping. I devoured it in two days while in Kenya—I recommend it 10/10.
Wow, this virus has an interesting history.
I’m an epidemiologist and just audibly said “oh shit”
> “close to Ebola, which is the same sort of virus”
Thanks, Yahoo, for that highly technical breakdown
Here. We. Go?!? Omg.
Time to read The Hot Zone again!
I used to go to Marburg to the bars up there, but that was back in 1969. There was a really cool one underground there somewhere, but I don’t remember what street it was on. It was a nice quiet little town back then.