New killer virus fears as 'nine bleed to death' from one of world's deadliest diseases

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viruses on the planet is feared to have claimed the lives of nine people, sparking fears of a wider outbreak.The deaths have occurred in Equatorial Guinea and are believed to have been caused by the Marburg virus.

Not dissimilar to coronavirus, it causes its victims to bleed to death. READ MORE: Nicola Bulley police search caravan site close to bench where phone was foundAround 88% of people who catch the virus die.The outbreak is the first time the virus has been detected in the central African nation, leaving health bodies in a desperate race to try and limit the spread.According to the World Health Organisation, there are a further 16 suspected cases in the country.Among the symptoms of these cases, fever, fatigue and blood-stained vomit and diarrhoea have been reported.The deaths in the country’s western Kie Ntem Province have led to local health authorities sending samples to the Institut Pasteur reference laboratory in Senegal following an alert raised by a district health official on February 7.At the time of writing, one of the deceased's samples returned positive.

The WHO says specialist teams have been dispatched to the region in a bid to trace the contact and route the virus might have taken.Further investigations are ongoing.The country’s Health Minister Mitoha Ondo'o Ayekaba has said that some 200 people have been quarantined.Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said: “Marburg is highly infectious.