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Marburg disease

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Mar′burg disease′, [Pathol.]

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′

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

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Marburg disease n

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

Etymology: 20th Century after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded

'Marburg disease' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

green monkey disease

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