dailyparasite.blogspot.com Posted: June 13, 2010
In 1967, in the German town of Marburg, 31 people became very ill with a strange new disease – 7 of them died. Many of the people who had become ill were involved with research on polio vaccines and were exposed to monkeys that had been originally imported from Uganda. The culprit was a virus, and it came to be known as Marburg virus, after the town…
