Brits sent urgent travel warning over 'eye bleeding' disease spreading in 17 countries

Brits heading overseas person been sent an urgent question warning implicit a fearfulness 'eye bleeding' illness that has dispersed to much than 17 countries.

Officials are spooked by rising cases of the Marburg microorganism which belongs to the Ebola household and is 1 of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered.

The deadly virus has already reportedly killed 15 radical successful Rwanda this autumn with hundreds being monitored for suspected infection.

An outbreak successful Rwanda was confirmed successful precocious September 2024.

Affected countries see Rwanda, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama and Peru.

It comes arsenic different 2 superior infectious diseases - the mpox Clade I variant and tropical Oropouche fever - proceed to dispersed crossed a fig of countries.

And present an alert has been issued by Travel Health Pro, a website commissioned by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), to pass Brits of the "triple threat" of lethal viruses making.

A spokesperson for Travel Health Pro said: “A Marburg microorganism illness outbreak has been reported successful Rwanda.

"Multi-country outbreaks of mpox clade I and Oropouche are besides ongoing."

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has a case-fatality ratio (CFR) of up to 88 percent, meaning it tin termination astir 9 successful 10 radical it infects.

The largest outbreak connected grounds to day occurred successful 2005 successful Angola and progressive 374 cases, including 329 deaths.

Marburg microorganism is transmitted to radical from effect bats aft "prolonged exposure" to mines oregon caves inhabited by the flying mammals.

The microorganism tin dispersed done human-to-human transmission via nonstop interaction done bodily fluids, arsenic good arsenic enactment with infected materials and surfaces.

Marburg microorganism symptoms 

Symptoms of the illness tin look abruptly, with precocious fever, terrible headache, and musculus aches and pains being common.

From the 5th time onwards patients whitethorn commencement bleeding from their nose, gums, eyes and vagina.

Other communal symptoms see watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain, bleeding from antithetic sites including nether the skin, feeling sick and being sick.

Progressive symptoms tin see a ash, jaundice, swelling and symptom successful the stomach, terrible value loss, inflammation of the pancreas, liver nonaccomplishment and multi-organ dysfunction.

Symptoms usually look 2 to 21 days aft vulnerability to the virus.