A potentially fatal haemorrhagic fever from a virus associated with Rousettus bat colonies was first detected in 1967 in simultaneous outbreaks in Belgrade in Yugoslavia (now Serbia), and Frankfurt, and where else in Germany?
Marburg The original outbreaks were associated with laboratory cultures being developed from green monkeys later discovered to be infected.
What is a mosquito-borne virus, also known as breakbone fever, that is an acute febrile disease which occurs widely in the tropics, in Asia, South America, Australia and the Pacific and is now endemic in more than 100 countries?
Which virus, which interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and coagulation causing hypovolemic shock, first emerged in 1976 in Zaire and came to international attention in 1989 after a widely publicized outbreak in Virginia, USA?
