COVID is not the only game in town - not by a long long shot. From the London Daily Mail:
Ebola-like Marburg virus is found in West Africa for the first time: Patient in Guinea is killed by disease that causes 88% of sufferers to bleed to death
An Ebola-like virus has been found in West Africa for the first time with a patient in Guinea dying from the extremely fatal disease.
Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from the Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever which causes suffers to bleed to death, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
The death marks the first time that the deadly disease has been identified in West Africa. There have been 12 major Marburg outbreaks since the virus was first discovered in the German town of the same name in 1967, mostly in southern and eastern Africa. Simultaneous outbreaks also occurred in Frankfurt and Belgrade, Serbia.
Just wonderful. Bet you did not know that there was an "Ebola-like" outbreak in Marburg, Germany. Did you know about the 1989 outbreak in Reston, Virginia? We really dodged a bullet with that one.
Compared to these, COVID is a walk in the park.
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