Holland Confirms Marburg Fatality In Tourist Returning From Uganda - 1st European Case Since 1967

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Marburg, a deadly haemorrhagic fever closely related to Ebola, is back in Europe, after a four-decade absence.

On Friday, 11 July, a 40-year old Dutch woman died in a quarantined ward of a hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands, less than two weeks after she returned from Uganda.

She had visited caves where she may have contracted the virus on 16 and 19 June, but she developed a fever and chills – early symptoms of Marburg – only after her return, on 2 July. More severe symptoms – such as liver failure and bleeding from multiple sites – struck two days after she was admitted to the hospital on 5 July.

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The first reported cases occurred in the German city of Marburg in 1967 and originated in living monkeys at a monkey research facility. In total, 31 people in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany and in Belgrade, now the capital of Serbia, contracted the disease and seven died. After that, Marburg disappeared from Europe but has since flared up in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, where a 2004-2005 outbreak killed 355 of 399 people who contracted Marburg.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14317-ebolalike-virus-returns-to-europe-after-40-years.html

[Javaman]

1. Hotzone. nt

[XemaSab]

2. Have they figured out what the natural reservoir is?

:shrug:

Google is my friend: fruit bats.