CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -This region is located in the middle belt of Ghana and is the most populated region in the country. The first case was a 26-year-old male who was a farm worker in Adansi North district, Ashanti region with a travel history to the Western region.

Detailed explanation-2: -The virus is not known to be native to other continents, such as North America. MVD typically appears in sporadic outbreaks throughout Africa. Laboratory confirmed cases in people have been reported in Uganda, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Angola, and South Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marburg virus was first recognized in 1967, when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).

Detailed explanation-4: -Guinean forests, along with other areas of West Africa, including Sierra Leone, are thought to be environmentally suitable for zoonotic transmission of Marburg virus disease by bats and particularly by Rousettus aegyptiacus (Egyptian fruit bat), which has been identified as a natural MARV reservoir host (Figure 1B).

Detailed explanation-5: -Marburg virus disease-Ghana. According to WHO, the risk of this 2022 outbreak spreading is high at the national level and low at the global level. Marburg virus disease-Ghana.