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Originally Posted by chagrin
Pretty creepy, he's patient Zero for some mysterious strain of the marburg virus, WE'RE DOOMED!!
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marburg virus?!?
I'd think you'd pick one of the strains of ebola--after all, ebola zaire kills around 90% of people who get it, as opposed to the 25% that marburg kills
fun fact: marburg hemmorhagic fever was named after a town in germany, marburg, that had an outbreak of marburg (in the family of viruses known as filoviridae) in 1967--five out of 19 people who were exposed to green monkey tissue died
so it's lethal, but not as lethal as other viruses you could've used