Marburg Virus: A highly contagious and deadly virus

Emerging infectious diseases are affecting public health and economies globally. Still living in the COVID-19 pandemic and now seeing another global public health emergency with monkeypox, the world must also be on full alert regarding Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) which is a highly contagious and deadly virus. If a Marburg virus (MARV) outbreak goes out of hand, it might result in millions of deaths due to a case fatality rate of up to 90%. As with monkeypox, the disease is travelling from Africa to the rest of the world, and therefore there is an urgent need to screen travelers from endemic countries, to be aware of the clinical manifestations, and to accelerate the evaluation and approval of MVD vaccines and therapeutics. MARV was first isolated in the city Marburg, Germany, in August 1967 when 31 cases of MVD were reported and caused an outbreak. It is believed that the MARV might have...