Marburg virus

Material Safety Data Sheet-Infectious Substances Marburg Virus. September 11,1997. 

Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Lassa fever, Argentine and Bolivian hemorrhagic fevers, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, Rift Valley fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever,... 

Figure 23.10 The typical Shepherd s Crook shape of the Marburg virus, magnified approximately 100,000x. Photo CDC Public Health Image Library...

Marburg-like viruses Marburg virus Vertebrate... 

Mammalian on cretroviruses, 346-350 Marburg virus, 379 Mass spectrometry of FHV, 52-53 of VLPs, 52-53 Matrix proteins, retroviridae and, 180-182, 181... 

Bechtelsheimer, H., Korb, G., Gedigk, P. The morphology and pathogenesis of Marburg Virus Hepatitis. Human. Pathol. 1972 3 255-264... 

Korb, G., Slenczka, W., Bechtelsheimer, H., Gedigk, R Marburg virus hepatitis in animal experiments. Virch. Arch. A Path. Anat. 1971 353 169-184... 

K. M., Killey, M., Bagshawe, A., Siongok, T., Keruga, W.K. Marburg-virus disease in Kenia. Lancet 1982 816-820... 

Laboratory Centre For Disease Control, Office of Biosafety, Material Safety Data Sheet-Infectious Substances Marburg virus, Minister of National Health and Welfare, Canada, September 1996. 

The emergence of new or newly recognized pathogens such as Nipah vims, Ebola vims, Marburg virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) corona vims, and influenza A/H5N1 vims... 

The virus was eventually proved to be Marburg-like, and was worm-like in shape with a coil at one end, but was much more pathogenic than the Marburg virus. The new virus was named after the river Ebola that ran through Yambuku. These viruses are members of the family known as filoviruses. Separate outbreaks of Ebola virus occurred near Maridi and N zara in Sudan, with 284 cases and 151 deaths, which represented a somewhat better survival rate from that experienced around Yambuku where there were 318 cases and a mortality rate of around 90% of those infected. This high mortality was undoubtedly due to the use and reuse of unsterilised syringe needles, by the mission medical staff. More recently, in May 1995, there was another major outbreak, in Kikwit, Zaire, and to date, an animal reservoir for the Ebola virus has not been identified. 

Preston has followed up his New Yorker article with a book titled The Hot Zone A Terrifying True Story. It is mainly about the Ebola vims, which has a 90% fatality rate, and along with the Marburg virus, is another lethal African vims whose sources remain unknown, echoing the problems in tracking down the sources of the AIDS vims. 

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