Marburg Virus Disease(Disease Index)

What is Marburg virus disease? 

Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a haemorrhagic fever (MHF) caused by a filovirus. Though caused by different viruses, Ebola virus disease (EVD) and MVD are clinically similar. Transmission of the Marburg virus (MARV) is through spillover from bat hosts to people but the exact mode of this transmission is not fully understood yet. 

The virus can then spread from person-to-person through close and direct contact with blood, and body fluids from infected persons. Transmission via infected semen from recovered persons up to seven weeks after recovery have been documented, albeit rarely. MVD outbreak have been reported ad hoc from different African countries, but notably increasingly from locations where it has not previously been reported.