Technical bulletin provides background and details on symptoms, transmission, treatment and testing On April 6, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to inform clinicians and public health departments in the United States about two confirmed outbreaks of Marburg virus disease (MVD): one in Equatorial Guinea and one in Tanzania. Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that these two outbreaks are related; most experts agree that these represent two independent animal-to-human spillover events. To date, no confirmed cases of MVD related to these outbreaks have been reported in the United States or other countries outside Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania.
The Division of Public and Behavioral Health has drafted a technical bulletin that provides information about these outbreaks to increase awareness of the risk of imported cases to the United States. It also summarizes CDC’s recommendations for case identification, testing and clinical laboratory biosafety considerations in the United States. Visit the DPBH Technical Bulletins web page and scroll to the “Other Topics” section.
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