Ghana’s Surviving Marburg Patient Recovers
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has announced that the female Marburg patient who survived her husband and baby after they contracted the Marburg virus, has recovered.
According to the GHS, the 24-year-old has now reunited with her family after she tested negative for the virus.
Her recovery means that the outbreak of the virus in Ghana will be declared over after 42 days if no new case is recorded.
The woman lost her husband and baby to the Marburg virus and got isolated on July 26, 2022, in a government-designated isolation centre after she tested positive for Marburg.
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, according to the GHS.
Her baby, fourteen months old, was admitted to a hospital on July 17, 2022, after falling ill and died three days later.
The GHS says together with its development partners and relevant state agencies, it will continue to maintain heightened surveillance for MVD and other viral haemorrhagic fevers.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
