Urgent warning to travellers over lethal virus that makes you bleed out of your eyes
A deadly virus similar to Ebola that makes you bleed from your eyes has already killed 15 people and it’s on the rise.
A warning to travellers has been issued as there are also other viruses currently spreading across the African continent, with one of them, Mpox, (which doesn’t make you bleed but is very contagious and causes a rash) having made its way to Leeds and infected one person.
The Marburg condition, known as the “bleeding eyes” virus due to one of its symptoms, has claimed its victims in Rwanda, where hundreds of people are believed to be infected. It’s feared the disease, which has a 50-50 chance of death and is thought to be one of the deadliest in the world could soon spread to other African countries.
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Now, Travel Health Pro has warned that while Marburg “is rare and very unusual in travellers, sporadic cases have been reported in travellers who spent prolonged periods in mines or caves inhabited by bat colonies”. It can be spread through open wounds and through mucus contact in the eyes, nose and mouth.
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Marburg has an incubation period between two to 21 days and can start abruptly according to the World Health Organization. Symptoms for it include: fever, severe headaches, severe malaise, muscle aches and pains. Other symptoms appearing later on can be: severe watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, vomiting, non-itchy rash.
After the fifth day some more gruesome symptoms can start to occur. These include: fresh blood in vomit and faeces, bleeding from the nose, gums, vagina, eyes, mouth and ears, internal bleeding, confusion, irritability, aggression or inflammation of the testicles. If symptoms carry on for longer, people are at risk of death, often due to severe blood loss or shock.
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