MARBURG VIRUS DISEASE DETECTED IN WEST AFRICA

  • 10/08/2021

Marburg virus disease (MVD), was first identified in 1967. Now, this virus for the first time has been reported in West Africa. The World Health Organisation has reported that the virus causes severe viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and begins abruptly with symptoms like high fever, severe headache and severe malaise.

This virus is capable of human-to-human transmission and the African fruit bats, Rousettus aegyptiacus are the ones that host the virus naturally.

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