Power Alley: Tests Confirm -- It Is Marburg, In Tanzania. Time To Solve The Crisis -- Not Point Fingers.

Now the President of Tanzania has admitted that WHO is and was right -- it is in fact. . . Marburg. Eight deaths, in fact, across two Districts.

The main difficulty will now be getting experimental vaccine into these remote mountainous districts -- and convincing contacts of contacts to come take a vaccine jab. Here's the latest:

. . .Tanzania’s president said Monday that one sample from a remote part of northern Tanzania tested positive for Marburg disease, a highly infectious virus which can be fatal in up to 88% of cases without treatment.

President Samia Suluhu Hassan spoke in Dodoma, the capital, alongside World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

WHO was the first to report on Jan. 14 a suspected outbreak of Marburg that had killed eight people in Tanzania’s Kagera region. Tanzanian health officials disputed the report hours later, saying tests on samples had returned negative results.

Hassan said Monday that further tests had confirmed a case of Marburg. Twenty-five other samples were negative, she said. . . .

Now you know -- we plan to post useful things today, exclusively -- on this sub-zero but sunny morning. The snark will return in time. Onward.

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