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. 2023 Oct 29;6(11):e1661. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.1661

Table 1.

Various Marburg virus disease outbreaks reported worldwide.

Year, month Location Outbreak linked to Reported cases Reported deaths (%)
1967, August Marburg and Frankfurt, West Germany; Belgrade, Serbia (Yugoslavia) Handling African green monkeys from Uganda in the laboratory 31 7 (22.6)
1975, February Johannesburg, South Africa Male travelling to Zimbabwe 3 1 (33.3)
1980, January Kenya Male visited Kitum Cave, Mount Elgon National Park 2 1 (50)
1987, August Kenya Boy visited Kitum Cave, Mount Elgon National Park 1 1 (100)
1990 Russia While handling African monkey in laboratory 1 1 (100)
1998, October to 2000, September Durba and Watsa, Democratic Republic of Congo Workers of a gold mine in Durba 154 128 (83.1)
2004, October to 2005, July Uige Province, northern Angola Unknown source 374 329 (88)
2007, June to September Kamwenge and Ibanda Districts, Uganda Young male workers in Lead and gold mines 4 2 (50)
2008, January United States A Uganda‐returned traveller 1 0 (0)
2008, July The Netherlands Uganda‐returned woman 1 1 (100)
2012, October Kabale, Ibanda, Mbarara, Kampala districts, Uganda Unidentified source 18 9 (50)
2014, September Kampala District, Uganda Unidentified source 1 1 (100)
2017, October Kween District, Eastern Uganda Dwelling near a bat‐infested cave 3 3 (100)
2021, August Guéckédou, Republic of Guinea Unidentified source 1 1 (100)
2022, July Ashanti region, Republic of Ghana Unidentified source; genetic sequencing indicated that the genome sequence related to Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Angola sequences 4 3 (75)
2023, February Equatorial Guinea Unidentified origin 40 35 (75)
2023, June Bukoba, United Republic of Tanzania Travelled to Goziba island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania 9 6 (66.7)