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Should We Be Worried? No cases of Marburg have been detected in the U.S. so far, and the risk of infection in the country is low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
As the early stages of Marburg virus infection resemble other conditions this gives time for the pathogen to spread before officials can raise the alarm.
Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and vaccines to combat Marburg virus.
There is no treatment for Marburg, and infection often leads to serious illness or death. How it spreads This is a colorized scanning electron micrograph of Marburg virus particles.
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During the 1998–2000 Marburg virus outbreak in Congo that recorded 154 cases and 128 deaths, for example, most infections occurred among gold miners and their families.
Marburg virus disease is a viral hemorrhagic fever that has similar clinical symptoms to infection with the Ebola virus. Even with supportive care, fatality rates range from 24 to 88 percent.
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The team then identified distinct baseline gene expression profiles of the donor macrophages, with the Marburg virus-responders exhibiting greater expression of receptors suspected to be important in ...