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2005-05-16 Africa: Subsaharan

ANGOLA: Marburg outbreak not under control

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Posted by phil_b 2005-05-16 19:17|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Airborne?

Posted by Matt 2005-05-16 20:22|| 2005-05-16 20:22|| Front Page Top

#2 WHO has my sympathies on this one. Marburg and Ebola are two of only five known pathogens in this *family*, and both are so relatively new as known diseases that there is just not a lot that can be said for sure about them. I would suspect an insect vector, such as flies, that are attracted to bodily secretions, but otherwise unpredictable in how they spread disease. There might be a limit to how long the disease can survive in a fly. The questions just keep building up and the answers are few and come slowly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-16 20:45|| 2005-05-16 20:45|| Front Page Top

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