Marburg haemorrhagic fever

Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF), also known as green monkey disease, Africa hemorrhagic fever, Marburg-Ebola virus disease, is a kind of acute fever Infectious disease with severe bleeding as the main manifestation, transmitted through close contact, is highly contagious and has a high mortality rate. In the fall of 1967, staff at several vaccine laboratories in Marburg, Frankfurt, Germany and Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, suffered a severe hemorrhagic fever at the same time after contacting a group of African green monkeys shipped from Uganda during the experiment. The Marburg Vaccine Institute isolated a new virus from the blood and tissue cells of the patients for the first time, hence the name Marburg Virus. The disease caused by it is called Marburg hemorrhagic fever.