The Marburg outbreak in Equatorial Guinea is a concern — and a chance for progress

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The World Health Organization convened an emergency meeting earlier this week, just a day after Equatorial Guinea, in West Africa, confirmed its first-ever outbreak of the highly lethal Marburg virus disease.

The WHO emergency meeting on February 14 was to discuss whether to test one of several Marburg vaccines and treatments in development during this outbreak.

WHO has already dispatched personnel and supplies – equipment such as gloves and isolation tents as well as rehydration fluids — the only current treatment for Marburg.

If an outbreak is large enough it can offer a chance to test the efficacy of vaccines in development that could prevent the disease, explains Dr. Heinz Feldmann, head of the Laboratory of Virology at the U.S.'s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.