Nessuno si preoccupa di parlarne, ma il virus Marburg, che ha una mortalitą quasi del 100%, dall'Angola si sta diffondendo anche in Zaire e Sudafrica.
Nessuno si preoccupa di parlarne, ma il virus Marburg, che ha una mortalitą quasi del 100%, si sta diffondendo anche in Zaire e Sudafrica.
Siamo a 184 morti, si cresce di dieci al giorno (molto ma molto peggio della SARS e del virus dei polli, che invece erano su tutti i giornali).
Da Recombinomics, autorevole giornale di biologia, si apprende che secondo Medecins Sans Frontieres il virus potrebbe essere stato diffuso attraverso un vaccino, dato che il 67% dei morti sono bambini di etą inferiore ad un anno che erano appena stati vaccinati. Dai bambini, il virus passa ad adolescenti ed adulti e ammazza tutti indistintamente.
Se si diffonde con tale rapiditą, dobbiamo solo sperare intensamente che non arrivi dalle nostre parti, altrimenti siamo magicamente fottuti.
Chi sa l'inglese, legga qui il bi e il ba:
Marburg Seeding Linked to Childhood Vaccine Program?
Recombinomics Commentary
April 10, 2005
>> Most of the affected persons are children under one year old. Three nurses were also infected. This week, 12 samples tested positive for Marburg fever by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). <<
The above comments by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on March 25 suggest that the Marburg outbreak in Angola was initiated via a childhood vaccine program. The initial WHO announcement indicated around 75% of the cases were in children under the age of 5. The comments by MSF indicate that more than 67% of the cases under 5 year-of-age were under children uner 1 year-of-age..
Since Marburg hemorrhagic fever is now readily transmitting to teenagers and adults, including 17 health care workers, it seems that the concentration of cases in children under 1 was not due to a lack of immunity found in adults. Indeed, the case fatality rate has been at or near 100% for all cases, regardless of age, with few if any survivors.
Unfortunately, the cases in Angola did not receive significant attention until health care workers were infected about a month ago. Within 1-2 weeks the Marburg virus was detected in 9 of 12 fatal cases, and resources began to flow into Angola.
However, it now seems that the effort failed to interrupt transmission when the virus was largely confined to the city of Uige, and now cases in seven provinces have been reported. The number of cases has more than doubled in the past few weeks.
Prior Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks had been largely limited to rural areas. However, the cases in the Angola capital of Luanda, and associated slums like Cacuaco, threaten to create a novel transmission setting in a densely populated urban area. This setting could magnify the number of cases, which could lead to a much broader outbreak inside and outside of Angola, potentially leading to a pandemic.
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/04100504/Marburg_Seeding.html
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