Marburg Virus Disease (MVD)

The rare but severe hemorrhagic fever known as Marburg virus disease (MVD) can infect both non-human primates and humans.

  • The six species of the Ebola virus are the only other known members of the filovirus family, while the Marburg virus is the only genetically distinct zoonotic (or animal-borne) RNA virus.
  • When hemorrhagic fever outbreaks occurred simultaneously in labs in Marburg, Frankfurt, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), in 1967, the Marburg virus was initially identified.
  • The African fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus, serves as the Marburg virus' reservoir host.
  • Fruit bats with the Marburg virus do not exhibit overt symptoms of sickness. ....
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