Marburg-Infected Woman Loses Husband, Baby To Virus

A twenty-four-year-old Ghanaian woman has lost her husband and baby to the Marburg virus, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said.

The lady is reportedly in isolation having contracted the virus from her husband and baby, the first two persons to be confirmed with the virus in Ghana.

Her husband, 26, got ill on June 22, 2022, and later experienced nostrils and mouth bleeding, got admitted to a hospital on June 26, 2022, but passed on some twenty-eight hours later.

Her baby, fourteen months old, was admitted to a hospital on July 17, 2022, after falling ill and died three days later.

For the woman, the GHS says she is “alive and well”.

She has been in isolation since July 26, 2022, in a government-designated isolation centre and “is being managed with full implementation of strict infection prevention and control measures”.

So far, only three cases have been established as Marburg infections in Ghana according to Dr Patrick Kuma Aboagye, the Director-General of the GHS.

It will be recalled that the GHS announced that two persons, one of them being the husband of the lady, had died of Marburg virus disease in the Ashanti Region of Ghana with positive tests from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research on July 6, 2022.

But the GHS indicates that the other person’s case has been debunked as Marburg by a second result conducted in Dakar.

It was established as a case of chronic peptic ulcer meaning that the cases of Marburg in Ghana are three.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini