a viral disease producing a severe and often fatal illness with fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal bleeding, transmitted to humans through contact with infected green monkeys.
Origin: after Marburg, where laboratory workers caught the disease from infected monkeys in 1967; and Ebola, river and region in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an outbreak occurred in 1976
Main Entry: green monkey disease Function: noun : a febrile infectious often fatal virus disease caused by the Marburg virus and characterized especially by encephalitis,hepatitis, and renal involvement and orig. transmitted to humans from green monkeys called also Marburg disease
