Marburg virus disease amid COVID-19 in West Africa: an emerging and re-emerging zoonotic epidemic threat, future implications and way forward

Affiliations

¹ Department of Community Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
² School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape Town, Cape Town 7530, South Africa.
³ College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Federal University of Sciences and Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.
⁵ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Service of Oral and Maxilla-Facial Surgery, Department of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁷ National Center Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Research Innovation and Technology, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa.
⁸ Department of Health Systems and population Health Sciences, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

Editorial

Stanley Chinedu Eneh et al. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 20:10:20499361231168520.

doi: 10.1177/20499361231168520. eCollection 2023 Jan-Dec.

¹ Department of Community Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
² School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape Town, Cape Town 7530, South Africa.
³ College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Federal University of Sciences and Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.
⁵ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁶ Service of Oral and Maxilla-Facial Surgery, Department of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁷ National Center Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Research Innovation and Technology, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa.
⁸ Department of Health Systems and population Health Sciences, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.

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Keywords: Equatorial Guinea; Ghana; Marburg virus disease; West Africa; emerging infectious diseases; outbreak; public health.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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