This news report is about Marburg virus it’s a dangerous virus like Ebola and it can kill you. It comes from fruit bats in Africa and spreads when people touch sick people’s body fluids or surfaces they touched. They found it first in 1967 in Germany and since then Africa has had many big outbreaks with lots of people dying.
If you get Marburg virus you might have a fever, your muscles might hurt, you could have diarrhea, throw up, and bleed really badly. It can also mess with your mind. Right now there is no medicine or vaccine to cure it so doctors just try to keep you comfortable and separate you from others so it doesn’t spread.
This news is telling us that Marburg virus is really scary because it can spread easily and it’s hard to control. Especially in places that don’t have a lot of good hospitals and doctors. We need to be ready and act fast if we think someone might have it so we can stop it from killing more people.