Bonus - All About Marburg Virus
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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About this episode:
An outbreak of Marburg virus, one of the deadliest viruses in the world, has been reported in Rwanda. In this episode: an overview of the rare, hemorrhagic fever with an 88% mortality rate and how it's impacting Rwanda, and why we're seeing more and more instances of zoonotic disease spillovers.
Guest:
Kari Debbink is a virologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.6 | Today we look into the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda, which has sickened 46 people and |
| 0:39.4 | killed 12. |
| 0:41.4 | Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Kari Debink, a virology expert at Johns Hopkins, about |
| 0:46.6 | the origins of Marburg, a rare but deadly virus, how it's similar to and different |
| 0:52.2 | from Ebola, and what the risk is for people around the world. |
| 0:56.3 | Let's listen. |
| 0:58.3 | Hari Depping, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:01.2 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:02.0 | So today's topic is Marburg virus. |
| 1:05.3 | And I'd just like to start right off. |
| 1:07.3 | What is Marburg virus? |
| 1:08.8 | So Marburg virus, most people may not know about Marburg, but they've |
| 1:12.0 | probably heard of Ebola. These are two very related viruses in terms of the symptoms that they |
| 1:17.7 | cause, the mortality rates that they cause. And so you can kind of think of Marburg very interchangeably |
| 1:23.8 | with Ebola. These are viruses that end up killing a large number of the people they |
| 1:29.1 | infect, and it's usually through hemorrhagic fever. So what that means is basically that the |
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