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Marburg Virus

  • Marburg virus causes a severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. It is a member of the Filoviridae family (filoviruses), like Ebola.
  • Its natural hosts are Rousettus fruit-bats, while the source of infection in humans was the African green monkey.
  • Infected persons have symptoms of high fever, muscle pain and severe headache, as well as abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea and body cramps. Later excessive bleeding from nose and gums becomes the cause of death of the patient.
  • It was first spread in 1967 in Belgrade and Serbia in addition to Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany. Recently new cases were found in Guinea, Africa.
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