marburg disease

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1. a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness (noun.state)

hypernym	:	haemorrhagic fever, hemorrhagic fever, vhf, viral haemorrhagic fever, viral hemorrhagic fever,
definition	:	a group of illnesses caused by a viral infection (usually restricted to a specific geographic area); fever and gastrointestinal symptoms are followed by capillary hemorrhage (noun.state)