marburg disease

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   a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness

   SynonymsMarburg hemorrhagic fevergreen monkey disease

   Broaderhemorrhagic fever

Questions about marburg disease

What does marburg disease mean?

marburg disease means "a viral disease of green monkeys caused by the Marburg virus; when transmitted to humans it causes serious or fatal illness".

What is another word for marburg disease?

Close synonyms include Marburg hemorrhagic fever, green monkey disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marburg disease a common word?

marburg disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.