Two outbreaks of Marburg virus in Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea have raised alarm bells among health officials about our abilities, even after the lessons of Covid-19, to effectively contain deadly diseases before they spread. 📷: Science Source
There aren’t large quantities of experimental vaccine doses readily available—just several thousand in total—but “we have sufficient doses to make rings around the contacts,” Henao Restrepo says. If some or all of the Marburg vaccines prove effective, the next step would be to create a stockpile for countries to use when they need them—as has been done for the most common form of Ebola.
There needs to be better local testing: Without it, health workers and the public remain in the dark about what they are dealing with early on in an outbreak. Some protective measures were introduced in Bukoba—it was feared that the fisherman’s relatives might have Ebola, so they were buried under supervision by health workers in personal protective equipment, with no funeral gatherings.
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