A few minor flaws in the book, such as improper uise of some terms and lack of explanatory footnotes in one or two important tables, could lhave been eliminated by stricter editing; these are, however, inconsequtential defects. The volume is a valuable, useful and on the wlhole readable account of the investigations between 1967 an(d 1969 into the Marburg virus disease. This work is concernied ...