What is Ebola Marburg?

Marburg hemorrhagic fever is a severe and highly fatal disease caused by a virus from the same family as the one that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Both diseases are rare, but can cause dramatic outbreaks with high fatality. There is currently no specific treatment or vaccine.

What are the three types of Ebola?

Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus) Sudan virus (species Sudan ebolavirus) Taï Forest virus (species Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus)

What are the 6 types of Ebola virus?

The six known virus species are named for the region where each was originally identified: Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Taï Forest ebolavirus (originally Côte d’Ivoire ebolavirus), Zaire ebolavirus, and Bombali ebolavirus.

How are Ebola and Marburg different?

Marburg and Ebola viruses are filamentous filoviruses that are distinct from each other but that cause clinically similar diseases characterized by hemorrhagic fevers and capillary leakage. Ebola virus infection is slightly more virulent than Marburg virus infection.

Why is it called the Marburg virus?

The virus was named after the city of Marburg, where most of the more than 30 cases in the 1967 epidemic were documented. RAVV was discovered in 1987, in a 15-year-old Danish boy who suffered from viral hemorrhagic fever in Kenya; the strain was named for the patient.

What are the two types of Ebola?

Two Ebola virus species (ZEBOV and TAFV) have been detected in the wild in carcasses of chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire and the Republic of the Congo; gorillas in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo; and forest antelopes in the Republic of the Congo.

What is the difference between Marburg and Ebola?

Where did Ebola come from?

Ebola virus disease ( EVD ) is a severe disease caused by Ebola virus, a member of the filovirus family, which occurs in humans and other primates. The disease emerged in 1976 in almost simultaneous outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) and Sudan (now South Sudan).

What viruses are similar to Ebola?

Marburg and Ebola viruses are both members of the Filoviridae family (filovirus). Though caused by different viruses, the two diseases are clinically similar. Both diseases are rare and have the capacity to cause outbreaks with high fatality rates.

What is Ebola?

Ebola is a rare and deadly disease that was first discovered near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

What is the difference between Ebola and Marburg?

Ebola & Marburg. The virus is spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of a sick person and can cause fever, headache, muscle pain, weakness, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and hemorrhage (severe bleeding). Ebola virus is part of the Filoviridae family, which also includes Marburg virus.

What is the ISSN for Ebola?

ISSN 1324-4272. ^ “Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease”. World Health Organization (WHO). Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2017. ^ Maxmen A (12 August 2019). “Two Ebola drugs show promise amid ongoing outbreak”. Nature. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02442-6. ISSN 0028-0836.

How has Ebola affected Chimpanzee tracking in the Lossi Sanctuary?

Outbreaks of Ebola may have been responsible for an 88% decline in tracking indices of observed chimpanzee populations in the 420 km 2 Lossi Sanctuary between 2002 and 2003.