Talk:Marburg virus disease/Archive 1

Marburg

Hey, could you make the search word "Marburg" transfer to the Marburg virus? - unsigned

Make Marburg redirect to Marburg virus? Why? WAS 4.250 05:50, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

On-going event

Ummm. Marburg virus is not an on-going event... it's a virus... Angola Marburg virus outbreak 2005 is an ongoing event. gren 15:57, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

True. But the tag, but I'm still not familiar with what types of information go where in an article. - unsigned

Just add it, Cynicaloptimist. Those of us watching the page will fix things if there's a problem, and it's the best way to learn. Neurophyre 00:22, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand what ongoing event it is referring to --Randolph 18:25, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Its refering to the outbreak that is happening in Angola right now MechBrowman 23:53, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Agree with gren, make an event article or drop the event tag. -moogle06:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(<---)But the tag does not say "this is an article about an ongoing event". It says "this article contains references to' a current or ongoing event" which seems exactly right. --Lee Hunter 12:17, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Unsafe burial practices such as ritual bathing represent another infection vector." - I don't see what ritual bathing has to do with burial - perhaps this needs some clarification? Or should it be "Unsafe burial practices and ritual bathing represent other infection vectors."? --Bobstay 13:07, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Should have read "ritual bathing of the corpse". Fixed now. --Lee Hunter 20:35, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Angola Virus"

I've removed this text "...also known as the Angola Virus" because I couldn't find any source that uses that name (only one hit on Google for "the angola virus") and it seems a bit unlikely. Please correct me if I'm wrong. --Lee Hunter 14:00, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I see that "Angola virus" has reappeared in the article as an alternative name. The only mentions I can find on the Web are in news headlines such as "Angola virus spreading" which seems to be more like headline writer shorthand (or sloppiness) than an actual name. Can anyone point to "the Angola virus"? --Lee Hunter 18:24, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've reworded this line; I believe the various 'Angola virus outbreak continues' and 'Angola virus spreading' headlines are simply journalistic shorthand for 'the virus in Angola'. In the reports themselves the virus is always referred to as Marburg (often with the claim that it is 'more lethal than Ebola, which it resembles'). I'll see if I can put in a 'see also' for Ken Alibek's 'Biohazard', which is where I first heard of the bug.-Ashley Pomeroy 13:20, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hoechst

I could not find any reference to Hoechst being a part of Dade Behring. At the Hoechst article it says that it is part of Aventis - changed to that until further notice. -moogle06:42, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Highly contagious"

That entire section appears to be lifted, although credit is given... Still, I think it's a bit sloppy to do so.

Agreed. I've edited the quote down to one line and removed the link which had gone stale (paid access archive).--Lee Hunter 18:47, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Two Marburg locations?

The text mentions an outbreak in 1967 in Marburg, Germany, and another in 1975 in Marburg, South Africa. It seems extremely unlikely that the virus has an affinity for cities whose name is Marburg!

That is correct, the outbreak in 1975 was in Johannesburg, South Africa. Thanks for finding that mistake. --Sperber 04:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

Thanks for the addition of the infobox! It adds to the Virus data currently presented.

Read-write-services 02:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Virus found in African fruit bat

Added paragraph based on a recent article in New Scientist magazine where new evidence about fruit bats has come to light. ---- WebHamster 21:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

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Fatality Rate

Wouldn't it be nice to put in a section on the fatality rates for this virus? A highly fatal virus causing hemmorhagic fever symptoms, I suggest that we format this article in a similar way to ebola. Especially because of the new article [1] that shows that Marburg was confirmed in a Colorado hospital. This article may generate increased interest in the virus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Teilhardo (talk • contribs) 21:14, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

 Done with reorganization—the article actually has the older version of the Ebola layout scheme. I think the CDC might have a more complete list if you're talking about infection and fatality data, because ebola has one [2]. ChyranandChloe (talk) 03:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, thats interesting to note. I'll try and add some details to the page--Teilhardo (talk) 16:39, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I've built up the barebones of the article and I'll probably adding the real substance overtime. One issue in particular that I want to address is recentism. We have a serious systematic bias about adding new cases, however non-notable, into this article; I'm not saying that we should begin cutting down—the history is certainly interesting and perhaps when the rest of the article is more complete, relative notability will be extended to these sections—however if it gets too serious we might have to spin it off into its own article. Other that, and for future reference, the "Popular culture" section needs to be trimmed or merged into a section describing the cultural impact and history. ChyranandChloe (talk) 04:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Marburg Virus

I am doing a project on this virus could some one plz post some tru info about it here...Thnx - unsigned

Sorry. Wikipedia is not about true versus false. The article this talk page is for containes information from the references (sources) indicated. Reliable sourcing is as good as we get around here. See a philosopher or priest for "truth". WAS 4.250 02:07, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

If you want to do a project or report about Marburg I would highly recommend checking out the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. The first part deals majorly with the spread and symptoms of Marburg. It is a very disgusting book and is horridly descriptive but it definitely gives you a good idea of what this virus does. Reuntes (talk) 01:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Eliciting different antibodies

The comment that Marburh is of the same taxonomic family as Ebola, and "both are identical structurally although they elicit different antibodies" I think needs a reference, as I dispute this.

How well an antibody adheres is dictated purely by structure and charge profile, the latter being a product of the former. So to say that the same shape will elicit differnt antibodies, is nonsensical. I wonder if the comment is intended to indicate that Ebola and Marburg elicit different CLASSES of antibodies? Anyone have a reference to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.148.215.157 (talk) 14:01, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

-1 Deaths

I assume that -1 deaths may mean someone was cured but I'm not 100% sure. The weekly deaths (where the -1 is found) should include a subtext that explains what -1 means. - unsigned

Early Outbreaks

How does 13 primary and 6 secondary cases add up to 31 afflicted? - unsigned

-1 Deaths

All thos numbers in that collumn are comparing the current amount of deaths to the amount of the previous week, for example if there were 347 deaths last week and 346 this week then it would go down 1 death so it would be -1. All this is doing is showing you if the deaths are increasing or decreasing.Ŗóń

virus?

there is no such thing like a virus.

Why does the article state 23% fatality rate?

The references indicate more like 80-90%. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.16.134.68 (talk) 10:24, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

Belgrade

"and the then Yugoslavian city of Belgrade."

this fraction of a sentence is nonsense, as long there is no context to Belgrade somewhere else. I think it is part of a sentence forgotten to erase. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.221.224.114 (talk) 13:50, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Talk page redirect

Why does Talk:Marburg virus redirect here, when the article Marburg virus does not redirect to Marburg virus disease? -- saberwyn 10:04, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Species ou virus?

What is this article about? Is it about the species Marburg marburgvirus ou is it about Marburg virus? The ""species" Marburg marburgvirus has two "virus": Marburg virus and Ravn virus. And Marburgvirus (one word) is the genus.--Miguelferig (talk) 17:46, 16 August 2014 (UTC)

It is about MARV. JKDw (talk) 09:58, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Marburg virus is an acute, often form of hemorrhagic fever, it is caused it by a filovirus(Marburg virus) that normally lives in Africa monkeys.Bold text — Preceding unsigned comment added by Night Lee (talk • contribs) 21:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

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Weaponization section

What is "offensive times" that is mentioned twice in that section? Is that some phase of the Cold War or some other time?Wzrd1 (talk) 00:20, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Citation overkill in places

In several places in this article there are multiple citations back-to-back where such duplication is surely quite unnecessary. If no single source can be found which summarises all these other sources, then ideally these WP:REFBOMBs need to be stripped down to no more than the best / most comprehensive three(ish) sources. It seems, in places, to be quite inconceivable that so many sources are required to cover such a small amount of information! Pesky (talk) 04:24, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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