Marburg virus-A new deadly pandemic?
What is the Marburg virus?
The highly contagious Marburg virus disease has a fatality rate of up to 88% and causes hemorrhagic fever. It is a member of the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. Two enormous flare-ups that happened all the while in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1967, prompted the underlying acknowledgment of the illness. Laboratory work with African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) imported from Uganda was linked to the outbreak. In this manner, flare-ups and irregular cases have been accounted for in Angola, the Popularity-based Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa (in an individual with ongoing travel history to Zimbabwe), and Uganda. Travelers who visited a cave in Uganda that was home to Rousettus bat colonies in 2008 were responsible for two distinct cases.