Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bedsheets.

There are no known incidences of Marburg viruses reaching the UK, but it has reached Europe before. In 1967 such an incident led to the virus being discovered and named after outbreaks of a ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Notably, the first filovirus to be discovered was Marburg virus (MARV), which was isolated during an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever in ...

The upsurge of Marburg virus was first discovered by examining the bodies of the African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) in the laboratory. These monkeys were transferred from Uganda.

Currently, there are no approved vaccines for Marburg virus disease.

This epidemic was caused by Marburg virus, which together with Ebola virus forms the filovirus group. The outbreak began in 1999 and has not yet been contained. Both epidemics should serve to ...

Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 when a shipment of infected monkeys from Uganda was sent to a laboratory in Marburg, Germany. Laboratory workers, who were involved in manufacturing ...

More information about FCDO travel advice can be found here. But what exactly is the Marburg virus? Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe and often fatal illness similar to Ebola, is caused by the ...