A Forgotten Episode of Marburg Virus Disease: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1967 | Zendy

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A Forgotten Episode of Marburg Virus Disease: Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1967

Author(s) -

Elizabeta Ristanović,

Nenad S. Kokoškov,

Ian Crozier,

Jens H. Kuhn,

Ana Gligić

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

microbiology and molecular biology reviews

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.358

H-Index - 247

eISSN - 1098-5557

pISSN - 1092-2172

DOI - 10.1128/mmbr.00095-19

Subject(s) - marburg virus , biology , virology , virus , zoology , ebola virus

In 1967, several workers involved in poliomyelitis vaccine development and production fell ill at three different locations in Europe with a severe and often lethal novel disease associated with grivets (Chlorocebus aethiops ) imported from Uganda. This disease was named Marburg virus disease (MVD) after the West German town of Marburg an der Lahn, where most human infections and deaths had been recorded. Consequently, the Marburg episode received the most scientific and media attention.

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