1. All have experience in working with Marburg virus.

2. Clinical features. Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and severe malaise.

3. The Marburg virus is transmitted by direct contact with the blood, body fluids and tissues of infected persons.

4. Marburg virus is spread through blood and other bodily fluids.

5. Transmission of the Marburg virus also occurred by handling ill or dead infected wild animals (monkeys, fruit bats).

6. Containment of an outbreak of Marburg virus disease also requires the rapid tracing and isolation of contacts.

7. Two cases of Marburg virus infection have recently been reported in Uganda.

8. Two weeks later Marburg virus was confirmed as the cause of his death.

9. Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and severe malaise.

10. Marburg virus infection has been demonstrated by laboratory tests performed by the Bernhard Nocht Institute in Hamburg, Germany.

11. Marburg virus has killed more than two hundred people in northern Angola. The rare virus has been deadly in nine out of ten cases.

12. For laboratory work, Marburg virus has been classified as an extremely hazardous pathogen and can be handled safely only in specialized high-containment laboratories.

13. Marburg virus is named after the German city where it was first discovered in nineteen sixty - seven.

14. A team of experts meanwhile explored the mine cave where the outbreak appears to have started in search of the reservoir of the Marburg virus.

15. A transmission electron micrograph ( TEM ) showing filamentous Marburg virus, magnified 100,000 times.

16. The primary infections were in laboratory staff exposed to Marburg virus while working with monkeys or their tissues.

17. Using a viral database, the research team looked for parts of the Ebola and Marburg virus genes that resemble other viruses known to suppress the immune system.

18. A longer-term objective, whose achievement has long proved elusive, is to determine where Marburg virus hides in nature between outbreaks.