Marburg virus was first documented in 1967 when a shipment of infected monkeys from Uganda was sent to a laboratory in Marburg, Germany. Laboratory workers, who were involved in manufacturing ...

Marburg virus, which belongs to the same family as ... and virus isolation by cell culture." Due to the extreme biohazard risk posed by samples collected from patients, laboratory testing on ...

More information about FCDO travel advice can be found here. But what exactly is the Marburg virus? Marburg virus disease (MVD), a severe and often fatal illness similar to Ebola, is caused by the ...

The Marburg virus is a member of the filoviridae (filoviruses) family. The disease has an incubation period of 2 to 21 days, according to WHO. It then manifests its symptoms suddenly.

Dr Ezekiel Mecha, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Nairobi and Certified Consultant at the International Federation of Biosafety Association, explains, “Marburg virus is a type of virus in ...

On January 20, Tanzania declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, which ended on March 13. Currently, there are no approved vaccines for Marburg virus disease. For the U.S. clinical trial ...

The allowed claims generally cover prevention of Marburg virus infection utilizing GeoVax's proprietary MVA-based Marburg vaccine. Previous presentations of data from nonhuman primate studies ...