- hemarrhagic fever, extremely high lethality (๊ฐ์ผ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฎ์)
- Etiology :
- Occurence
- Africa Congo ์ง์ญ์์ ์ฒ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ
- 5 species : 4๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋์๊ฒ ์ง๋ณ ์ ๋ฐ, 1๊ฐ๋ NHP์๊ฒ(์ฌ๋X)
- Transmission
- ์ ๋ถ human-to-human
- ๋ณ์ ๋ฑ ์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ผ(patient blood, accidental inoculation, reused needles, ..)
- consuming chimpanzees as food
- ์ํ๋ฆฌ์นด์ burial rituals
- fruit bat์ด host๋ก ์์ฌ
- Clinical manifestation
- fever, headaches, diarrhea, .. (Marburg์ ์ ์ฌ)
- 75% hemorrhagic
- 1976์ fatality rate : 53%, 88%, .. (๋งค์ฐ ๋์)
- Differential Diagnosis
- hemorrhage : only seen in patients with a fatal course (fatalํ ๋๋ง ์ถํ ์๊ฒฌ)
- ๋ค๋ฅธ hemorrhagic fever(yellow fever, flavivirus ๋ฑ)๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ณ ํ์
- ์ง๋จ๊ณผ ์คํ์ have to be perforemed in BSL-4 facilities
- Theraphy & Prophylaxis
- ๋์ฆ์น๋ฃ
- fresh-blood transfusion
- serum from recovered patients
- ribavirin, interferon.. but not fully tested yet (์์ ์ํ์ ๋ง์น ์น๋ฃ์ ๋ ์์)
- ์๋ฐฉ : the deceased cremated(์ฌ๋ง์ ํ์ฅํ๊ธฐ), ์ ์ด ์ฃผ์, ์ฃฝ์ ์์ญ์ด ๋จน์ง ์๊ธฐ