The Marburg Virus: An Overview

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Module 4

What causes the MVD or Marburg Virus Disease?

 

Marburg virus is considered to be transmitted to humans from life cycles in other animals known as Zoonotic infection .Marburg and Ebola are the virus still its unclear to which animals these two virus has been infected, it is thought that both may be transmitted to humans from monkeys and/or bats. Still its  unclear that how humans contact these deadly viral factors from wild animals such as through eating them or by infected animal body fluids, it is clear that human-to-human transfer occurs by direct contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids like saliva, tears, excretions, vomit’s, and blood). The Marburg viruses are not thought to be spread through air droplets.