Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa

Concern over Ebola becoming endemic in West Africa has appeared in the medical and lay media. Routes of transmission, rates of viral evolution, suitability of humans as hosts and rarity of spillover events make this very unlikely. Without evidence that endemic Ebola is likely, ending epidemics shoul...

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Autores principales: Sprecher, Armand, Feldmann, Heinz, Hensley, Lisa E., Kobinger, Gary, Nichol, Stuart T., Strong, Jim, Van Herp, Michel
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27572170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.7
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spelling pubmed-70973812020-03-26 Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa Sprecher, Armand Feldmann, Heinz Hensley, Lisa E. Kobinger, Gary Nichol, Stuart T. Strong, Jim Van Herp, Michel Nat Microbiol Article Concern over Ebola becoming endemic in West Africa has appeared in the medical and lay media. Routes of transmission, rates of viral evolution, suitability of humans as hosts and rarity of spillover events make this very unlikely. Without evidence that endemic Ebola is likely, ending epidemics should remain the focus. Nature Publishing Group UK 2016-02-24 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC7097381/ /pubmed/27572170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.7 Text en © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2016 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa
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