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.

Unknown to us, there are millions of viruses wafting through the air as we breathe. Most of these viruses are mild in nature, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The allowed claims generally cover prevention of Marburg virus infection utilizing GeoVax's proprietary MVA-based Marburg vaccine. Previous presentations of data from nonhuman primate studies ...