The recent discovery in Guinea has highlighted the need for local surveillance and research into emerging diseases.
Ki-Zerbo said: “This is a localised outbreak, the risk is very high in the area, it is also considered high in the border area, especially in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone. It is considered moderately low at global level at this stage.”
Virologist and bioinformatician, Professor Túlio De Oliveira from the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform at UKZN, echoed Ki-Zerbo’s calls for an increase in surveillance. So far, about 155 people have been identified as close contacts in Guinea, and they will be monitored for three weeks.
The incubation period for the virus varies from 2 to 21 days, with symptoms including high fever, severe headaches, muscular pain, vomiting and diarrhoea, which makes Marburg difficult to diagnose initially as these are similar to typhoid and malaria symptoms.
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