Skip Standard Navigation Links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 CDC Home Search Health Topics A-Z
peer-reviewed.gif (582 bytes)
eid_header.gif (2942 bytes)
 EID Home | Ahead of Print | Past Issues | EID Search | Contact Us | Announcements | Suggested Citation | Submit Manuscript

Volume 9, Number 12, December 2003

Risk Factors for Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Daniel G. Bausch,* Matthias Borchert,† Thomas Grein,‡ Cathy Roth,‡ Robert Swanepoel,§ Modeste L. Libande,¶ Antoine Talarmin,# Eric Bertherat,** Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum,¶ Ben Tugume,†† Robert Colebunders,† Kader M. Kondé,‡‡ Patricia Pirard,§§ Loku L. Olinda,¶ Guénaël R. Rodier,‡ Patricia Campbell,¶¶ Oyewale Tomori,‡‡ Thomas G. Ksiazek,* and Pierre E. Rollin*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta Georgia, USA; †Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; ‡World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; §National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa; ¶Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; #Institut Pasteur, Cayenne, French Guiana; **Le Pharo, Marseille, France; ††Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda; ‡‡World Health Organization, AFRO, Harare, Zimbabwe; §§Doctors without Borders, Brussels, Belgium; and ¶¶Doctors without Borders, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 
 
Figure.
  Back to article
 

Figure. Map of the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicating the neighboring villages of Durba and Watsa, the epicenter of the 1998–1999 outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever.

 

EID Home | Top of Page | Ahead-of-Print | Past Issues | Suggested Citation | EID Search | Contact Us | Accessibility | Privacy Policy Notice | CDC Home | CDC Search | Health Topics A-Z

This page last reviewed November 18, 2003

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention