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More than 30 years after the discovery of Marburg virus as the causative agent of an outbreak of severe viral hemorrhagic fever in Germany and the former Yugoslavia in 1967, the long-forgotten pathogen has struck twice in the recent past, leaving no doubt about its survival in nature or its pathogenic potential. The first strike came in 1998 (and lasted until 2000), when Marburg virus hit a gold-mining community in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as discussed by Bausch and colleagues in this issue of the Journal (pages 909–919). A second outbreak followed in northern . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Feldmann is chief of the Special Pathogens Program at the National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, and an associate professor of medical microbiology at the University of Manitoba — both in Winnipeg, Canada.

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