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May
13
2023
By The African Mirror
African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases – a giant step

African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases – a giant step

HEALTH
INFECTIOUS disease outbreaks in African countries are, unfortunately, all too common. Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or Uganda; Marburg virus in Guinea or Equatorial Guinea; cholera in Malawi; malaria and tuberculosis are among them. These diseases do not respect human-made or porous borders. So it’s essential that scientists in Africa are able to generate and share critical data on the pathogens in time to inform public-health decisions. Authors ALAN CHRISTOFFELS, Director South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape SOFONIAS KIFLE TESSEMA, Program Lead for Pathogen Genomics at the Africa CDC Genomic sequencing technologies are…
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Feb
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Equatorial Guinea confirms country’s first Marburg virus disease outbreak -WHO

Equatorial Guinea confirms country’s first Marburg virus disease outbreak -WHO

HEALTH
EQUATORIAL Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, following the deaths of at least nine people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. The small Central African country quarantined more than 200 people and restricted movement last week in its Kie-Ntem province after detecting an unknown hemorrhagic fever. Neighboring Cameroon also restricted movement along its border over concerns about contagion. In addition to the nine deaths, Equatorial Guinea has reported 16 suspected cases of Marburg virus with symptoms including fever, fatigue and blood-stained vomit and diarrhoea, the WHO said.…
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Sep
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Marburg in Guinea: the value of lessons from managing other haemorrhagic outbreaks

Marburg in Guinea: the value of lessons from managing other haemorrhagic outbreaks

HEALTH
AS the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient vaccination rollout, viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head. This adds to public health turmoil on the continent where resources to respond to emerging and re-emerging epidemic-prone zoonotic diseases remain limited. MICHELLE J. GROOME, Head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases JANUSZ PAWESKA, Head of the Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases In the first week of August 2021, a Marburg virus disease outbreak was declared in south-western Guinea. This was the same area in which…
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