marburg fever symptoms
Marburg hemorrhagic fever (Marburg HF) Signs and Symptoms. After an incubation period of 5-10 days, symptom onset is sudden and marked by fever, chills, headache, and myalgia. Around the fifth day after the onset of symptoms, a maculopapular rash, most prominent on the trunk (chest, back, stomach), may occur.
The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for Marburg virus includes the 31 symptoms listed below: 1  Phase 1: Sudden onset. 2  Phase 2: Maculopapular rash. 3  Sore throat.  Muscle 1  pain. Rash. 2  Pancreatitis. Weight 3  loss. Neuropsychotic symptoms. 4  Hemorrhage. Hypovolemic  shock. more information...Â».
In 1967, laboratory workers, all in the same lab in Marburg, Germany, were hospitalized with an unknown disease. The laboratory workers were exhibiting the same symptoms, including fever, diarrhea, vomiting, massive bleeding from many different organs, shock, and collapse of the circulatory system.