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Marburg virus disease
This page is medical background from WHO/CDC citations. It is not current-event intelligence.
- Pathogen
- Marburg virus
- Transmission
- Fruit bats are a reservoir; human-to-human via body fluids (WHO).
- Incubation
- 2–21 days (WHO).
- Typical symptoms
- Sudden fever, severe headache, malaise, then hemorrhagic features in some cases.
- Treatment
- Supportive care; no widely licensed specific antiviral (WHO).
- Vaccine
- No licensed vaccine in routine use (WHO).
- Historical fatality
- Historically high in some outbreaks (WHO).