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Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania: current efforts and recommendations – a short communication

On 21 March 2023 the Tanzania’s Ministry of Health reported the first Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Bukoba District reporting a total of eight cases and five fatalities including one health care worker with a case fatality ratio of 62.5%. MVD is a filoviral infection with an estimated incu...

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Autores principales: Bulimbe, Deusdedith B., Masunga, Daniel S., Paul, Innocent K., Kassim, Ghalib H., Bahati, Paschal B., Thomas, Jonaviva A., Mwakisole, Christina, Nazir, Abubakar, Uwishema, Olivier
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001063
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author Bulimbe, Deusdedith B.
Masunga, Daniel S.
Paul, Innocent K.
Kassim, Ghalib H.
Bahati, Paschal B.
Thomas, Jonaviva A.
Mwakisole, Christina
Nazir, Abubakar
Uwishema, Olivier
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Masunga, Daniel S.
Paul, Innocent K.
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Nazir, Abubakar
Uwishema, Olivier
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description On 21 March 2023 the Tanzania’s Ministry of Health reported the first Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Bukoba District reporting a total of eight cases and five fatalities including one health care worker with a case fatality ratio of 62.5%. MVD is a filoviral infection with an estimated incubation of 3–21 days and causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. Fruit bats are significant reservoir host leading to animal-to-human transmission and human-to-human transmission by direct contact of body fluids from an infected person. Symptoms and signs include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, body malaise, massive hemorrhage, and multiorgan failure. Currently, no definitive treatment or licensed vaccines are available to date but only supportive care. This outbreak is an alarming concern to the neighboring countries to contain the outbreak. Within 3 years from 2020 to 2023 Tanzania has already recorded one pandemic, which is the novel coronavirus disease 2019 and two epidemics, which are Cholera, Dengue, and now MVD. Tanzanian’s Ministry of Health is drawing lessons from the previous health emergencies to contain this particular epidemic. To impede the MVD outbreak in Tanzania, the focus of this commentary is on highlighting the efforts performed and the significant recommendations provided to relevant organizations and the general public.
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spelling pubmed-104060532023-08-08 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania: current efforts and recommendations – a short communication Bulimbe, Deusdedith B. Masunga, Daniel S. Paul, Innocent K. Kassim, Ghalib H. Bahati, Paschal B. Thomas, Jonaviva A. Mwakisole, Christina Nazir, Abubakar Uwishema, Olivier Ann Med Surg (Lond) Short Communications On 21 March 2023 the Tanzania’s Ministry of Health reported the first Marburg virus disease (MVD) outbreak in Bukoba District reporting a total of eight cases and five fatalities including one health care worker with a case fatality ratio of 62.5%. MVD is a filoviral infection with an estimated incubation of 3–21 days and causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. Fruit bats are significant reservoir host leading to animal-to-human transmission and human-to-human transmission by direct contact of body fluids from an infected person. Symptoms and signs include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, body malaise, massive hemorrhage, and multiorgan failure. Currently, no definitive treatment or licensed vaccines are available to date but only supportive care. This outbreak is an alarming concern to the neighboring countries to contain the outbreak. Within 3 years from 2020 to 2023 Tanzania has already recorded one pandemic, which is the novel coronavirus disease 2019 and two epidemics, which are Cholera, Dengue, and now MVD. Tanzanian’s Ministry of Health is drawing lessons from the previous health emergencies to contain this particular epidemic. To impede the MVD outbreak in Tanzania, the focus of this commentary is on highlighting the efforts performed and the significant recommendations provided to relevant organizations and the general public. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10406053/ /pubmed/37554886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001063 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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Masunga, Daniel S.
Paul, Innocent K.
Kassim, Ghalib H.
Bahati, Paschal B.
Thomas, Jonaviva A.
Mwakisole, Christina
Nazir, Abubakar
Uwishema, Olivier
Marburg virus disease outbreak in Tanzania: current efforts and recommendations – a short communication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37554886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MS9.0000000000001063
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