Background to Ebola’s 40th: The Discovery of Filoviruses

Ebola is 40 today! The discovery of filoviruses: Marburg and Ebola Marburg virus In 1967, the world was introduced to a new virus: thirty-one people in Marburg and Frankfurt in Germany, and Belgrade in the then Yugoslavia, became infected in a linked outbreak with a novel haemorrhagic fever agent. Twenty-five of them were laboratory workers associated…

Background to Ebola's 40th: The Discovery of Filoviruses
Source: Virology News

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