a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding
Also called: green monkey disease
Word origin
C20 after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded
Marburg disease in American English
noun
Pathology
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
Also called: green monkey disease, Marburg-Ebola disease (ˈmɑːrbɜːrɡiˈboulə)
Word origin
[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 occurredin 1976]