The World Health Organization announced a brand new outbreak of the “Marburg Virus” in West Africa.

Marburg is yet another highly infectious virus, and one that the WHO has classified as the highest level biological threat-- “Risk Group 4”.

(By comparison, SARS-Cov-2 is a lower, “Risk Group 3” biological agent.)

Marburg comes from the same virus family as Ebola. And, while Covid-1984 has a roughly 1.7% fatality rate according to CDC data, the limited data from the past 20 years of Marburg cases shows a fatality rate of 85%.

One person died from the Marburg virus in Guinea last week, and authorities there estimate that 145 people may have been in contact with him and potentially exposed to the virus.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/marburg-virus-discovered-for-first-time-in-west-africa-deadly
More Information: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/marburg-virus-disease