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Module 2
Marburg Virus.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever is deadly and rare fever which affects the non-human and human primates. It is a zoonotic virus means animal borne virus, which have RNA of the Filovirus family. Marburg virus also known as MVD or Marburg Virus Disease which typically appears in throughout the Africa region.
Marburg virus was firstly noted in 1967 in the laboratories of Marburg and Frankfurt. The viral infection exposed to African green monkeys or their body fluids or tissues.