| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Mar′burg disease′, [Pathol.]a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys. Also called green monkey disease, Mar′burg-Eb′o•la disease′ (mär′bûrg eb′ə lə).USA pronunciation - and Ebola, river and region in the north, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976 after Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: Marburg disease n - a severe, sometimes fatal, viral disease of the green monkey, which may be transmitted to humans. Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and internal bleeding
Also called: green monkey disease
Etymology: 20th Century after Marburg, in which the first human cases were recorded |