近日，赤道几内亚证实该国首次暴发马尔堡病毒病疫情，导致多人接受隔离，引发了人们对新发传染病疫情大规模暴发的担忧。据世卫组织官网介绍，马尔堡病毒病是由马尔堡病毒引发的一种严重病毒性出血热，平均病死率约为50%。马尔堡病毒与埃博拉病毒同属丝状病毒，通过肢体接触、体液接触等方式传播。
Mortality rate.
The percentage of people are likely to die out of everyone who contracts a disease.
It varies widely from one illness to another.
To give you a rough idea, COVID-19 has a mortality rate of 1.4 percent.
Typhoid 15 percent.
Tuberculosis 43 percent.
Marburg virus is so deadly that during the worst outbreak it killed 90 percent of those infected.
That's a massive rate of fatality.
It's an untreatable virus, so once you've got it, there's no cure.
One slip-up when treating a patient, disposing of their possessions or conducting an autopsy and your odds of survival are one in ten.
