Outbreake of Marburg virus disease in Johannesburg.

Gear, J; A Cassel, G; J Gear, A; Trappler, B; Nygaard Clausen, Louise; Meyers, A.M.; C Kew, M; H. Bothwell, T.; Sher, R; B Miller, G; Schneider, Josef; J Koornhof, H; Ed, Gomperts; Isaäcson, M; H. S. Gear, J.

doi:10.1136/bmj.4.5995.489

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Outbreake of Marburg virus disease in Johannesburg.

Published in BMJ • Nov 29, 1975

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J Gear

G A Cassel

A J Gear

Abstract

The first recognised outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Africa, and the first since the original epidemic in West Germany and Yugoslavia in 1967, occurred in South Africa in February 1975. The primary case was in a young Australian man , who was admitted to the Johannesburg Hospital after having t...

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Medicine

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Maculopapular rash

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