Marburg disease

noun

Pathology.

1. a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.

Marburg disease

noun

1. Also called: green monkey disease. a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding

Word History and Origins

Origin of Marburg disease¹

After Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967; and Ebola, river and region in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976

Word History and Origins

Origin of Marburg disease¹

C20 after _Marburg , in which the first human cases were recorded