Multiple Genetic Varients Clue To Source Of Deadly Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak

... Daniel G. Bausch, associate professor of Tropical Medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and an international team of researchers identified multiple genetic variants of virus in an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998--2000, pointing to exposure to a host reservoir in mines as a possible source of the disease. ...