The highly-infectious disease is similar to Ebola, with symptoms including fever, muscle pains, diarrhea, vomiting, and, in some cases, death through extreme blood loss.
Hundreds of people have died from the virus in recent years, almost all in Africa.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), on average, the Marburg virus kills half of the people it infects, with previous outbreaks killing between 24% and 88% of patients.
The virus was first identified in 1967 after 31 people were infected and seven died in simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany and Belgrade in Serbia.
The outbreak was traced to African green monkeys imported from Uganda.
But the virus has since been linked to other animals.
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Marburg virus (MARV), a member of the family Filoviridae that also contain the Ebola virus, causes Marburg virus disease (MVD)which is zoonotic in nature as well as a very fatal disease with up to 88% case fatality rate. It is s an enveloped virus having a negative sense, non-segmented RNA genome that is single-stranded. There are certain variants of Marburg virus such as Musoke, Angola and Ci67 out of which the variant Angola is the most pathogenic one.
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