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Volume 352:2571-2573 June 23, 2005 Number 25 Next

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As of May 26, 2005, the Angolan Ministry of Health had reported 399 cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, 335 of which were fatal. Even as this unprecedented spread of filovirus infection continued, Marburg's sister virus, Ebola, had killed nine people in the Republic of Congo. Although Ebola may now be the better-known sibling, Marburg virus was identified first, in 1967, after an infectious-disease clinician at the university hospital in Marburg, Germany, saw patients with a severe febrile syndrome associated with bleeding from multiple sites on the skin and the mucous membranes and shock. The patients all worked for a pharmaceutical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Peters is a professor of tropical and emerging virology and the director of biodefense at the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

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