Marburg virus disease amid COVID-19 in West Africa: an emerging and re-emerging zoonotic epidemic threat, future implications and way forward

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Community Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• ² School of Pharmacy, University of the Western Cape Town, Cape Town 7530, South Africa.
• ³ College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.
• ⁴ Department of Public Health, Federal University of Sciences and Technology, Owerri, Nigeria.
• ⁵ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ⁶ Service of Oral and Maxilla-Facial Surgery, Department of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁷ National Center Laboratory of Oral Biomedicine Ministry of Research Innovation and Technology, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa.
• ⁸ Department of Health Systems and population Health Sciences, Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.