{"id":15389,"date":"2020-09-17T09:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15389"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:13:04","slug":"ebola-marburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ebola-marburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Marburg: The First Outbreak of a New Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is Ebola Marburg? Is this virus different than other Ebola outbreaks? And <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebola Marburg is a strain of Ebola, named after the German city that experienced an outbreak in 1967. The Ebola Marburg outbreak sparked scientific interest in this new disease, and scientists rushed to find its origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to find out more about Ebola Marburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1962-1976: The First Outbreaks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first recorded outbreaks of the filoviruses occurred in a 15-year stretch in the 1960s and \u201870s. Distinct symptoms like victims\u2019 red eyes helped doctors draw connections among the diseases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1960s: First Ebola Marburg Outbreak<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 1962 and 1965, several Ugandan villages around Mount Elgon\u2014not far from Kitum Cave\u2014were hit with outbreaks of an unusual disease that killed not only villagers but also monkeys. The symptoms included a strange skin rash and bleeding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The village microbreaks went relatively unnoticed, but in 1967 a vaccine factory in the German city of Marburg experienced an outbreak that infected 31 people and killed seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German factory imported African green monkeys in order to harvest their kidney cells to make vaccines. The virus came in with a shipment of several hundred monkeys from a monkey trader in Uganda who exported thousands of monkeys to Europe each year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monkey trader\u2019s standard practice was to perform only a visual inspection of the monkeys before they were exported, and to remove any that looked sick or injured. The sick monkeys were then released on a small nearby island in Lake Victoria, making the island a potential hotbed of viruses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse yet, when the trader was short on monkeys for an export, he would get some from the island. <strong>It\u2019s possible that the Marburg virus was present on the island, and that the trader included some monkeys from the island in his shipment to Germany, setting off the outbreak there.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only two or three of the monkeys may have had the virus, and they likely didn\u2019t show any symptoms when they arrived. But in the monkeys\u2019 close quarters, the virus quickly spread and several monkeys died.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virus soon made the jump to humans, first infecting a factory employee tasked with feeding the monkeys and cleaning their cages. He died within weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Marburg virus outbreak, global health officials were eager to find the source of the virus so that they could contain it and avoid future outbreaks. Although the virus arrived in Marburg via monkeys,<strong> the virus killed the monkeys too quickly to make them viable hosts\u2014so it had to have been another animal or insect to which the monkeys were exposed.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organization sent a team of investigators to Uganda, where the monkeys had been imported from, but they couldn\u2019t identify the source.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Ebola Marburg? Is this virus different than other Ebola outbreaks? And Ebola Marburg is a strain of Ebola, named after the German city that experienced an outbreak in 1967. The Ebola Marburg outbreak sparked scientific interest in this new disease, and scientists rushed to find its origins. 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