How to Use Marburg virus in a Sentence

Marburg virus

noun
  • Two other vaccines for Ebola virus could also be effective against Marburg virus.
    — Jess Craig, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • One of the deaths has been confirmed as being from Marburg virus disease, while eight others are considered suspected.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2023
  • There are currently no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved for Marburg virus.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2022
  • That monoclonal antibody — which was given to others too — was designed to bind to the Marburg virus and neutralize it.
    — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 6 Oct. 2025
  • It is considered far less fatal than Ebola or the Marburg virus, another hemorrhagic fever with a high death rate.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Providers who suspect that someone is sick with Marburg virus should take a detailed travel history, the CDC said.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Another hemorrhagic fever, called Marburg virus, broke out in Tanzania last month.
    — Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Rousettus aegyptiacus fruit bats are considered the natural hosts for Marburg virus.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 22 Mar. 2023
  • People can spread Marburg virus through bodily fluids, blood and contaminated objects or surfaces.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • There are also new outbreaks of Ebola in Uganda’s capital and of the disease’s cousin, the Marburg virus, in Tanzania.
    — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Test results on 12 blood samples from active cases and a swab from a deceased person tested negative for Ebola and Marburg viruses.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This mode of transmission means that Marburg virus will not spread as easily as, say, Covid-19 or other respiratory diseases.
    — Jess Craig, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing threats from around the world.
    — Mike Stobbe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In 2020, Bangura’s team reported the first discovery of Marburg virus in bats in West Africa.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Orthoebolaviruses are Ebola-causing members of a family of viruses called filoviruses, which also include the Marburg virus.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 22 May 2026
  • Marburg virus is related to Ebolaviruses and causes similar hemorrhagic disease.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • Guinean health authorities were able to intervene quickly when lab workers in 2021 detected a case of Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
  • News Peg Tanzania announced its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease in late March, reporting eight cases, including five deaths.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Game organizers can choose from a variety of possible pathogens to simulate—from coronaviruses and measles to Marburg virus and tuberculosis.
    — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The center will be able to provide care for, receive and oversee patients with pathogen infections, including Ebola and Marburg virus disease, under this new designation.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Enlarge / An electron micrograph of a number of Marburg virions responsible for causing Marburg virus disease.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
  • No vaccine or antiviral treatment is approved to treat Marburg virus disease, which has an average death rate of around 50%, according to the WHO.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Amid reports of a deadly viral outbreak in Central Africa, researchers are reportedly scrambling to develop treatments and vaccines to combat the Marburg virus.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Funding was frozen for critical disease control programs that prevent and treat a range of deadly infectious diseases, including malaria, Marburg virus, mpox, and tuberculosis.
    — Gavin Yamey, TIME, 3 Feb. 2025
  • As the possible emergence of Marburg virus disease amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak shows, the presence of one outbreak does not preclude the simultaneous circulation of another.
    — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 1 July 2026
  • The warning is in response to outbreaks of Marburg virus disease, one in Equatorial Guinea and the other in Tanzania -- with neither country reporting outbreaks before this year.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • This cycle has repeated itself across outbreaks of EBOV, Sudan virus, BDBV, and Marburg virus.
    — Krutika Kuppalli, STAT, 1 July 2026
  • Successes stemming from this partnership include effectively responding to several Ebola outbreaks, addressing mpox around the world and the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda and Ethiopia.
    — Jordan Miller, The Conversation, 31 Jan. 2026
  • But Bundibugyo virus has caused relatively few outbreaks historically and has remained a lower research priority compared with the more lethal Zaire strain or even Marburg virus, which belongs to the same viral family as Ebola.
    — Paul Adepoju, Scientific American, 20 May 2026
  • Others are intrinsically dangerous, including the Ebola and Marburg viruses, and bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025

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