COSMOS BIOMEDICAL LTD MES VIROLOGY CROSSWORD No.1

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Marburg virus

ACROSS

 

1 Marburg belongs to which virus family? (11)

2 Another virus belonging to 1 across (5)

3 One of the long term symptoms suffered by survivors of 1 across (9)

5 Country, along with the former Yugoslavia, where lab workers were first affected with the virus in 1967 (7)

6 Third outbreak of Marburg was in Kenya in 1980 following a visit to Kitum Cave in Kenya's Mount ____ National park (5)

7 Acronym of the group who worked with the WHO to investigate the 2004/05 Angolan outbreak (5)

 

DOWN

 

1 From the 7^th April 2005, cases and deaths had been reported from _____ Northern Angola provinces (4)

2 The disease can become increasingly damaging, causing jaundice, ______ , liver failure and extensive haemorrhage (8)

3 Specimens were shipped to which country to be investigated at the Special Pathogens Laboratory, situated within the National Microbiology Laboratory? (6)

4 Province of Angola where the 2004/05 outbreak is believed to have begun (4)

5 African ______ monkeys, imported from Uganda, are thought to have first introduced the virus to humans (5)

6 The 1998/2000 outbreak occurred in which Democratic Republic? (5)

 

REFERENCES

 

• CDR Weekly, Vol. 15, No. 14: 7 April 2005 (www.hpa.org.uk/cdr)
• CDR Weekly, Vol. 15, No. 35: 2 September 2005 (as above)
• WHO Marburg haemorrhagic fever fact sheet (www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets)
• BBC News medical notes: 4 April 2005 (www.news.bbc.co.uk)

 

 

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