Draft genome of the virus has also been completed. Strain is being called "October strain" and is closely related to the strain that caused the second biggest Marburg outbreak ever in 2014 in Uganda. 🧪

"Most of the patients we had were young, around the age of 30, 35, which is the workforce among these health workers. Maybe that is a factor too to think about in terms of case fatality and recovery rate, but also early detection and treatment", says Nsanzimana.

So possibly - and this is me sucking my thumb here - related in terms of "long Marburg" infectee spreading it around?

The two closest genomes are the two in red in this tree of known MARV diversity.