Filo Virus Research Paper

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A filo virus is any virus that is characterized as filamentous single stranded RNA viruses which have unique ways of reproduction and structure. Alongside the Ebola virus, Marburg virus is part of the filo virus group. Marburg virus is almost difficult to notice apart from Ebola, they very closely resemble. Such virus causes a disease in both humans and animals, known as Marburg Virus Disease. It was first documented in humans from an outbreak in Germany and Yugoslavia. Several workers from a laboratory were exposed to blood, organs and cell cultures from imported African green monkeys from Uganda. Acceptingly, the virus is animal borne from fruit bats being the natural host. The reservoir hosts are monkeys as they rapidly die once diseased