Ebola : A New Strain Of The Virus Emerges

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Ebola : A New Strain Of The Virus Emerges

Post by cronus » Sun Nov 09, 2014 2:04 pm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 111003.htm

Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new strain of the virus

A different strain

Researchers from the IRD, the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, the CIRMF in Gabon and the INRB in the DRC, in collaboration with WHO experts, reveal that it is a new outbreak of haemorrhagic fever, separate from the West-African outbreak. The CIRMF has performed whole genome sequencing of the virus responsible using a high-throughput sequencer that is unique to Sub-Saharan Africa. It confirms that it is a virus from the Ebola species, but shows that the Congolese strain is different from the one in West Africa. Moreover, it appears to be very similar to those that ravaged in the DRC and Gabon between 1995 and 1997.

A contained epidemic

This result means that the Congolese outbreak is due to a local viral strain, which has been controlled. This epidemic began on 26 July 2014 when a woman fell ill a few days after cutting up a monkey found dead in the forest. To date, 70 cases have been confirmed, including 42 deaths, giving a fatality rate of around 60%, similar to that observed in West Africa. The epidemic peak was observed in the week of 24 August 2014. Thanks to the protection measures implemented by the Congolese health authorities -- isolation of patients, protection of medical staff, instructing the populations to avoid all body contact -- the epidemic now appears to be contained.

This recent rise in Ebola epidemics shows that the likelihood of the virus being passed on from animal reservoir to humans is increasing. We therefore urgently need to gain a better understanding of the ways in which the virus circulates (seasonal or other) within its natural reservoir and the factors that govern the virus' transfer from one animal species to another or to humans. Better knowledge of these parameters would enable alert thresholds to be defined and epidemics to be predicted, which could prove invaluable to the rapid implementation of control measures.

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Nov 09, 2014 3:40 pm

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Re: Ebola : A New Strain Of The Virus Emerges

Post by JimC » Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:07 pm

Finding a dead monkey in the forest (probably leaking blood and green slime from every orifice) then cutting it up is not really very sensible...
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Re: Ebola : A New Strain Of The Virus Emerges

Post by piscator » Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:49 am

JimC wrote:Finding a dead monkey in the forest (probably leaking blood and green slime from every orifice) then cutting it up is not really very sensible...
There might have been some good meat still left on it. :coffee:

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