NEW MARBURG VIRUS PANDEMIC THREAT!
Scientists can’t contain bug more deadly than COVID and Ebola combined
AN INCURABLE doomsday virus with a 90 percent death rate has escaped African quarantine and threatens to contaminate the globe in a new devastating pandemic that could threaten mankind’s very existence, worried scientists warn!
World Health Organization (WHO) scientists are frantic to contain the lethal Marburg virus, which causes spontaneous bleeding from the eyes and is deadlier than COVID and Ebola combined! But the killer continues to spread! So far, nine patients in the central African nation of Equatorial Guinea have died in the frightening flare-up of the Marburg virus and another 16 people have been infected with the disease, which is now ravaging Cameroon.
But experts fear the bug is just one plane flight away from America — and there’s no vaccine to keep the nation safe.
Says Florida internist Dr. Gabe Mirkin, “The doomsday scenario is always that someone who is not yet symptomatic gets on a plane and flies to New York or L.A. unknowingly infecting dozens of people.
“From there, the medical establishment would have a very hard time containing it. And at that point, we can expect a large number of casualties.”
Much like the COVID virus that’s killed about 7 million people worldwide, Marburg is harbored by fruit bats. The bug can infect those exposed to the flying mammals, bodily fluids of infected people or through contact with contaminated surfaces and materials.
The virus was first detected in 1967 after multiple outbreaks in laboratories in Marburg, Germany, and Belgrade, Serbia, among scientists studying the bug in infected monkeys.
In all, 31 people became ill and seven died during that flare-up. Since then, the virus has mostly appeared in African nations.
Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, jaundice, inflammation of the pancreas, severe weight loss, delirium, shock, liver failure, massive hemorrhaging and multi-organ dysfunction.
Sources say only 30 cases of the virus have been recorded since 2007, but modern air travel may help the deadly pathogen quickly spread around the world, which is unprepared for the devastation.