Marburg disease
nounPathology.
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.
Origin of Marburg disease
1After 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
- Also called green monkey disease, Mar·burg-Eb·o·la disease [mahr-burg-eb-uh-luh]. /ˈmɑr bɜrgˈɛb ə lə/.
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British Dictionary definitions for Marburg disease
Marburg disease
noun
a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding: Also called: green monkey disease
Origin of Marburg disease
1C20 after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded
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