• sudden onset of fever, headache, joint and muscle pain, followed by sore throat, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting and rash.
• after 3 to 5 days of fever, hemorrhagic manifestations begin.
• case fatality rate for Marburg virus infection is 25 %
• case fatality rates for Ebola infection have ranged from 50 to 90%.

• Ebola virus
• Marburg virus

• close contact with infected persons or infected blood, tissues, secretions or excretions.
• transplacental and veneral transmissions have occured.
• possibly contact with infected animal vectors (primates).

Ebola

• epidemics have taken place in Sudan & Zaire; virus may be endemic in other parts of Africa; monkeys infected with an Ebola-like virus were imported to the US from the Philippines in 1989 (no human illness resulted).

• scattered human cases have occurred in Central, eastern and southeastern Africa; cases reported in Germany were from infected African green monkeys imported from Uganda.

• for both virus infections, 5 to 10 days.
• both viruses can persist in humans for at least 2 months.

• supportive only

Thanks to the World Health Organisation
for much of this information.