Maridi Haemorrhagic Fever,
Abstract
In the period from June to November 1976, there occurred in the Sudan and in Zaire - at first isolated, and then in epidemic form - cases of a disease with a high mortality rate that, according to its symptomatic, could have been yellow fever or Lassa fever. This report contains our observations of the course of this disease and the findings of hematological, virological, histological and immuno-diagnostic analyses that show that this was a disease similar to the Marburg virus disease that first appeared in 1967. We obtained blood samples from acutely ill patients at the hospital in Maridi as well as liver tissue from one deceased patient; these samples were given to an official of the WHO, packed in dry ice, for isolation of the virus at the Microbiological Research Establishment (MRE) in Porton Down, England.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA956022
Entities
People
- D. Peters
- G. Nielsen
- H. H. Schumacher
- Joshua L. Knobloch
- M Dietrich
Organizations
- United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases