USAMRIID study finds hemorrhagic fever disease persists in monkeys

A new study out of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases offered insight on how filoviruses, a group of viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever in humans, might persist.

The researchers at USAMRIID, at Fort Detrick, found persistent Marburg virus, a deadly type of filovirus that can infect humans, in other primates. More specifically, they found it in the testes of crab-eating macaques, according to the article published in Cell Host and Microbe.

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