Marburg haemorrhagic fever - The Marburg virus causes severe
viral haemorrhagic fever in humans. - Case fatality rates in
Marburg haemorrhagic fever outbreaks have ranged from 24% to
88%. - Rousettus aegypti, fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family,
are considered to be natural hosts of Marburg virus. The Marburg
virus is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among
humans through human-to-human transmission. - No specific
antiviral treatment or vaccine is available. Marburg virus is
the causative agent of Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF), a
disease with a case fatality ratio of up to 88%. Marburg
haemorrhagic fever was initially detected in 1967 after
simultaneous outbreaks in Marburg, from which the disease takes
its name, and Frankfurt in Germany; and in Belgrade, Serbia.
Marburg and Ebola viruses are the two members of the Filoviridae
family (filovirus). Though caused by different viruses, the two
diseases are clinically similar. Both diseases are rare and have
the capacity to cause dramatic outb