An outbreak of Marburg sends a shudder through the select community dedicated to eliminating diseases from the planet.

ECONOMIST: There are few worse viruses than Marburg

That will be peanuts compared to what could happen with tularemia, Ebola virus, or Marburg virus.

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Two weeks later Marburg virus was confirmed as the cause of his death.

ECONOMIST: There are few worse viruses than Marburg

The couple were arrested at their home in the western town of Marburg in the early morning of 18 October 2011.

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Marburg was unknown until a simultaneous outbreak in laboratories in Germany and the then Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, killed seven people in 1967.

ECONOMIST: There are few worse viruses than Marburg

The spotlight fell on Poeteray after German police raided the home of a married Russian couple living in the German city of Marburg, reports AFP.

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Angola sealed its border with Congo to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus , an incurable Ebola-like haemorrhagic disease that has killed at least 146 people.

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Researchers from the security group at Leibniz University of Hanover and the computer science department at the Philipps University of Marburg tested the most popular apps in Google's Play store.

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