Marburg death toll reaches 311

[norml]

Marburg death toll reaches 311
May 19, 2005 (CIDRAP News) – The death toll in Angola's epidemic of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has climbed to 311 out of 337 cases, but all recent cases have been confined to the province where the epidemic began, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

The last WHO report on the situation, on May 11, had listed 316 cases with 276 deaths. A Reuters report on May 16 had cited 336 cases with 292 deaths.

No cases have been reported outside the northern province of Uige in the past 5 weeks, the WHO said. The province has had 326 cases, 300 of them fatal.

The agency said control efforts are working smoothly. "The isolation unit at Uige's provincial hospital is being used, infection control in the hospital has improved, and safe burial practices are now being followed," the statement said.




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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/vhf/news/may1905marburg.html

[shraby]

1. What scares me the most

about the Marburg, Ebola and other hemmorhagic virii is if they mutate and become spread through the air.

[norml]

5. Marburg Toll in Angola Rises to 345

Marburg Toll in Angola Rises to 345

Recombinomics Commentary
May 20, 2005

The May 18 update from the Angola Ministry of health includes 3 new Marburg cases and 2 news deaths recorded on May 17, raising the total number of cases to 345 and the total deaths to 319. All of the cases are in the township of Uige. However on May 17 eight previously reported cases were discarded. These prior reported cases appear to have been deaths because removal of eight fatalities would lower the number of cases to 337 and the number of deaths to 311, which would match recently announced figures.

All 8 discarded fatalities were in the township of Uige. Thus, the number of new cases and deaths are being reported at the rate of 2-4 per day, but previously recorded fatalities are removed from the totals. The removals sometimes are listed in the discarded column, like the 8 listed above, and other times the numbers are simply reduced without explantion (i.e. the total for May 16 should have been 344 based on the 4 deaths on the priovious day and no discarded cases - however, the number listed on the May 18 was only 342, so the total was reduced by two without explanation and an additional 8 were discarded from the township of Uige).

Thus, the total number of cases and deaths move up slowly, and some days the total number dead declines, because more fatal cases are removed than added.





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http://www.recombinomics.com/News/05200501/Marburg_Toll_345.html

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. No, they're saying that the Avian Flu will be doing so

Marburg, not covered in a paper near you.

[Ilsa]

3. 92% mortality. I doubt we'll ever hear of this in the US

MSM. It's too "unpleasant" to think of people dying from this. They's rather cover Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith.

[Joebert]

4. At least Star Wars is SUPPOSED to be entertainment.

They don't pass it off as news.

Michael Jackson
Brides w/ cold feet
Newsweek

When that stuff is reported as news, there is a problem. Hyping a movie sucks, but they don't shroud it in something as if it were important.