We will keep our fingers crossed -- as CIDRAP has the latest, here:
. . .Yesterday Rwanda reported one new Marburg virus case — a known contact of an earlier case, but officials said they were cautiously optimistic the outbreak of the deadly filovirus was dwindling.
"It's not time to declare victory, but we are headed in that direction,” said Yvan Butera, MD, PhD, Rwanda's minister of state, standing in for the country’s health minister during an Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) briefing today. . . .
In related news, the Sabin Vaccine Institute announced on X it was sending 1,000 more doses of the experimental Marburg vaccine was being send to Rwanda after the initial 1,700 vaccines were sent in September. The Institute said 1,600 doses have already been used in at-risk populations, including healthcare workers. . . .
These (at above -- far right) are electron scanning microscope images of the individual particles of Marburg virus. Other graphics here show them speckling the top of a u-shaped cell structure, but these are the actual, individual lil' critters, above.
Now you know.
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