Marburg disease
noun Pathology.
a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
Also called
green monkey disease,
Mar·burg-Eb·o·la disease
[mahr-burg-eb-uh-luh] /ˈmɑr bɜrgˈɛb ə lə/.
Origin of Marburg disease
after
Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967; and
Ebola, river and region in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976
British Dictionary definitions for marburg disease
Marburg disease
noun
a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding
Also called: green monkey disease
Word Origin for Marburg disease
C20 after
Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded