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Marburg Haemorragic Fever

A rare viral haemorrhagic fever which occurs in miniclusters in Europe and Africa following direct contact with monkey tissue, blood or human serum infected with the Marburg virus.
Incubation 5-9 days; otherwise like Argentine or Bolivian hemorrhagic fever—headaches, fever, diarrhoea, myalgias, rash, pharyngitis, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, hemorrhage, renal failure
Mortality 7 of the 31 original Marburg cohort died

Marburg disease

a severe, often fatal, viral hemorrhagic fever of humans first reported in Marburg, Germany, among laboratory workers exposed to African green monkeys. The virus is a member of the family Filoviridae.

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