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Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan

Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan

Date
14 Oct 1974
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan

Marburg Disease, also known as green Monkey disease is a variant of HemorrhagicFever that was first identified in green monkeys. It gets its namefrom the city of Marburg, Germany, where it caused small epidemics. In 1974, the virus killed more than three hundred people in Northern Zaire (Now Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Sudan. On 14 October 1974 Scientist finally identified the virus that had been causing the deaths to be the Marburg Virus.

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  1. 01Who Marburg haemorrhagic fever [online] Available at: www.who.int [Accessed on 20 September 2013]
  2. 02News-Medical What is Marburg Virus? [Online] Available at: www.news-medical.net [Accessed on 20 September 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2013, October 8). Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan . South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096497

South African History Online (2013) 'Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan ', South African History Online, 8 October. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096497 (Accessed: 9 August 2026).

South African History Online, Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096497, (accessed 9 August 2026).

"Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan ." South African History Online, 8 Oct. 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096497. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "Scientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan ." South African History Online. October 8, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096497.

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