{"id":50141,"date":"2022-01-22T21:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=50141"},"modified":"2022-01-22T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:17:11","slug":"fact-check-did-who-announce-a-new-marburg-virus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50141","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check | Did WHO Announce A New Marburg Virus Pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yet another example of viral fake news circulating on various Social Media platforms<\/em><\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tech ARP<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Marburg Virus Is Not New<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marburg virus is NOT a new virus. It was actually discovered in 1967, in Marburg, Germany. Hence, the name \u2013 Marburg virus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

It spread to the Frankfurt, as well as Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia. 31 people were infected, and 7 of them died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marburg virus belongs to the same Filoviridae (filovirus) family as Ebola viruses, and cause clinically similar diseases characterised by haemorrhagic fever and capillary leakage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Like Ebola, Marburg has a high mortality rate, varying from 24% to 88%, with an average of 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video circulating on various Social Media platforms Was From 9 August 2021 and the Marburg Outbreak Was Over By September 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry of Health of Guinea informed WHO of only one confirmed case of Marburg disease virus (MVD) in south-western Guinea on 6 August 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only One Person Died<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A total of 173 contacts were identified, including 14 high-risk contacts. Fortunately, no one else developed symptoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Only the man, who was identified as the first known case of Marburg virus disease in Guinea, died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marburg Virus Has Low Pandemic Risk<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marburg virus primarily transmits through direct contact with blood and\/or bodily fluids of infected persons or animals; and through exposure to infected Rousettus bats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

This greatly reduces its transmissibility, compared to a respiratory virus like SARS-CoV-2 \u2013 the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So while Marburg is more likely to kill an infected person than SARS-CoV-2, it does not transmit as easily and is very unlikely to become a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marburg Virus Has No Relevance To COVID-19 Pandemic<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anti-vaccination activists like Graham Hood, a former Qantas pilot, are using this Marburg virus announcement as \u201cevidence\u201d that vaccination is useless and pointless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Their contention is \u2013 why get vaccinated against COVID-19 when new viruses like Marburg will keep coming up, with new vaccines?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, Marburg is not a new virus as I mentioned earlier. But more importantly, it is not related to SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether there is a Marburg outbreak or not, the COVID-19 vaccines will protect us against infection, hospitalisation or death from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.<\/em><\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Marburg Vaccines Have Been Under Development For Years<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marburg vaccines have been under development for years because it was discovered a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim that WHO was secretly working on the vaccines before announcing this \u201cnew virus\u201d is completely FALSE<\/strong>, and is based on their ignorance that Marburg virus was discovered 55 years ago! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

With inputs from Tech ARP<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another example of viral fake news circulating on various Social Media platforms Tech ARP Marburg Virus Is Not New Marburg virus is NOT a new virus. It was actually discovered in 1967, in Marburg, Germany. Hence, the name \u2013 Marburg virus. It spread to the Frankfurt, as well as Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}