Marburg disease

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Marburg disease

(Pathology) a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding. Also called: green monkey disease

[C20 after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded]

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Mar′burg disease`

a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.Also called green monkey disease, Mar′burg-Eb′o•la disease` (ˈɛb ə lə)

[after Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967; and Ebola, river and region in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976]

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Marburg disease - a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness

green monkey disease, Marburg hemorrhagic fever

haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, VHF, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever - a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage

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They called it the Marburg Disease. Yet, when, by some magic, the same disease surfaced in DRCongo in 1976, its name was changed to Ebola by the Western scientists involved in the scam so that, as usual, Africa will carry the can of shame as the origin of dangerous viruses.

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