Earth's warming climate is giving rise to the filovirus.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever (click here) (Marburg HF) is a rare but severe hemorrhagic fever which affects both humans and non-human primates. Marburg HF is caused by Marburg virus, a genetically unique zoonotic (or, animal-borne) RNA virus of the filovirus family. The five species of Ebola virus are the only other known members of the filovirus family.
We now have an additional member of the filovirus family.
Marburg virus was first recognized in 1967, when outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever occurred simultaneously in laboratories in Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Thirty-one people became ill, initially laboratory workers followed by several medical personnel and family members who had cared for them. Seven deaths were reported. The first people infected had been exposed to imported African green monkeys or their tissues while conducting research. One additional case was diagnosed retrospectively....
These virus are finding their origins in a similar geographic region of the world. It is profound and persistent poverty. The latest outbreak of Ebola was begun in a young boy exposed to bat vectors. The world can no longer pretend it does not exist.
We are seeing yet another vicious virus that are attacking the genetic content of the fetus. If the Zika Virus does not scream out a message about Africa's most poor, then I don't know what does.
To ignore the challenge of removing dangerous conditions of Earth's deepest secrets of rebalancing biotic life still remains among a world that values life far more than any other generation before us. These breeding grounds need to end and eliminating the mosquito will begin to end the nightmares yet to come.
The food chain of these regions are well known and eliminating the current mosquito population will be welcome and a good beginning. There is nothing to say a substitute for the food chain should not be considered, but, it has to be a food source that is as abundant, but, unable to serve as a vector. Genetic sterilization of a mosquito will only last for a few generations before it returns.
The ultimate answer is to remove poverty from the face of Africa. The people in poverty are no different than in First World countries, they are forced to live on the extremes of society. In the First World it is the thief and the homeless that attract attention for social programs to remove that reality from human life. But, in Africa it is still the neglect of the world that allows such conditions of human beings.
