A vaccine to fight against the Marburg virus in monkeys may also be the first recognized treatment as well. This came in a report of U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Further they anticipate using a parallel vaccine to treat Ebola. Marburg and Ebola both are termed as possible bioterror means.
Marburg virus killed more than 300 people in Angola last year. Ebola killed 254 people in Gabon and between 2001 and 2005. There is no cure for either disease. They lead to a severe hemorrhagic fever. The patients die of several organ malfunction and distress.
It can take some time to develop and permit a human vaccine, but it may take a experimental version of the possible use in a lab.
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