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Old 03-06-2007, 10:30 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by H5N1
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
That was my "Millennium" reference, sorry
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