Marburg disease









Marburg disease


Marburg disease Word Origin 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.

Origin of Marburg disease 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 1976Also called green monkey disease, Mar·burg-Eb·o·la disease [mahr-burg-eb-uh-luh] /ˈmɑr bɜrgˈɛb ə lə/. British Dictionary definitions for marburg disease Marburg disease noun

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

Word Origin for Marburg disease C20 after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded

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