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The Laboratory Assistant Marga K had worked since March 1967 in the Marburg serum factory.

Her job was to fetch newly removed kidneys from the post-mortem room to clean them and to prepare them for further

processing. The prescription was that she had to wear gloves and mouth cover in

order to avoid the contamination of the cultures. Occasionally she helped with the fixation of the killed animals on the examination

table. On August 18th, 1967, Malaise and myalgia took place.

On the following day, she developed fever up to 39 Celsius.

On August 20th, the third day, for the first time

vomiting occurred.

One day later, burning and reddening of the conjunctiva.

The temperature now rose to 40 Celsius.

On the fifth day, she was admitted to our infectious ward.

At this time there appeared in the face, on the trunk, and on the proximal parts of the extremities,

a macular, popular rash, a red anathema of the soft palate that reached to the hard

palate. There were enlarged lymph nodes at the neck along the sternocletomastoid

and in the axillary's. On the sixth day the conjunctivitis decreased.

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