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> The Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea continues to grow, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, as the global health agency stated that it knows of confirmed cases that the country has not yet reported.

> "WHO is aware of additional cases and we have asked the government to report these cases officially to WHO," Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during the WHO's weekly press conference.

> The additional cases are laboratory-confirmed, said Abdi Mahamud, WHO's director of alert and response coordination, though neither he nor Tedros revealed how many additional cases the agency has learned of.

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This disease sounds HORRIBLE.

It's basically Ebola^LITE

So...lock the country down, start mass testing, trace and isolate know contacts? How hard can it be to implement the knowledge and experience we've gained fighting a pandemic these past 3 years? A virus can't travel if it can't spread. Should be able to get rid of the outbreak in less than 2 months with adequate measures.

Just finished reading Hot Spot so this is pretty terrifying.

Yeah, it’s a littler more difficult when people hide their infections. Thank goodness it’s not airborne but it can still spreed pretty damn quick if people aren’t wanting to self identify.

Truly horrific way to die.

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Same, thank God the guy sent the dead monkey spleen to the institute

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Marburg is a goddamn nightmare, even if it doesn't completely melt sufferers into a pile of virus with the same ferocity as Ebola. No one should ever have to fuck with virii that cause hemorrhagic fever.