Marburg Virus: The First Documented Outbreak of Fever

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Marburg Virus
The first documented outbreak of hemorrhagic fever virus caused by a filovirus was associated with wild-caught African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops, formerly
Cercopithecus aethiops) that were imported from Uganda to Marburg and Frankfurt, Germany, and to Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1967. During the course of the zoonotic outbreak, 31 animal staff and laboratory workers in direct contact with the blood or tissue from the recently imported monkeys became infected with the newly identified MBGV, and seven died. An unusually high mortality rate (21 to 46%) was observed in Belgrade among these groups of imported monkeys during the quarantine period (Stojkovic 1971) but infection rates among the cohort of 500 to 600 monkeys imported from Uganda to a variety of locations during this time remain unknown.
( Hans-Dieter Klenk and Heinz Feldmann, 2004 pg. 207)

Following this outbreak the disease went away for almost 10 years, it returned near South
Africa in 1975. With an unknown reservoir, through extensive studies and research it is under the assumption that the first case resignated in Zimbabwe. It is believed that a young hitchhicker who hiked to Southern Africa carried the virus, upon arriving there he infected 2 others who survived the effects and symptoms due to treatment the young hitchhiker was unfortunate and lost his life. Once again the Marburg Virus went into the shadows and in 1980 another case was reported in Kenya killing one person and infecting another. Once again it returned to Kenya in
1987 and was contracted by one person who received treatment and later died from the disease.
Although this is unconfirmed researchers believe that bats carried these filoviruses from ...

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Works Cited

Marburg Virus Hardcover- WM Collins & Sons & Company, published (May 1 1982)
1st edition Author: Stanley Johnson
Marburg Virus used as a biological weapon found from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/intro/bio-marburg.htm Prevalence, outbreaks, prevention retrieved from; http://www.news-medical.net/health/Marburg-Virus.aspx Ebola and Marburg Viruses- Molecular and Cellular Biology, Hans-Dieter Klenk and Heinz
Feldmann Institute for Virology, Marburg and National Microbiology Laboratory, Health
Canada, Winnipeg http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/marburg-hemorrhagic-fever The Coming Plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance; published in the U.S.
1995 Author: Laurie Garrett
Marburg health issues found from New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/marburg_virus/

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