How Did The Name Of A Town In Germany, Marburg, Come To Be Associated With A ...

[sandyRoe]

...deadly disease in Africa?

[Jomlett]

The city's name is also connected to a filovirus, the Marburg virus, which was first noticed and described during an outbreak in the city. Workers were accidentally exposed to infected Green Monkey tissue at the city's former industrial plant (1967), the Behring-Werke, then part of Hoechst and today of CSL Behring, founded by Marburg citizen and first Nobel Prize in Medicine winner, Emil Adolf von Behring.

[Fitzer]

Because when it was first discovered it was thought to be Marburg virus, named after a virus first seen there, Frankfurt & Belgrade, when it was found not to be it was named for the Ebola river near where it first occurred.

[Fitzer]

Must type faster :-)

[sandyRoe]

Thank you both.