Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 24 Feb 2016 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Microbiology, volume 1 (eissn: 2058-5276,

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Authors: Sprecher, Armand; Feldmann, Heinz; Hensley, Lisa E.; Kobinger, Gary; Nichol, Stuart T.; Strong, Jim; Van Herp, Michel;

doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.7 , 10.5281/zenodo.13530987 , 10.5281/zenodo.13530986

pmid: 27572170

pmc: PMC7097381

Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) 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.

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Keywords

Endemic Diseases, bats, bat, Biodiversity, Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, Ebolavirus, Article, Disease Outbreaks, Africa, Western, Chiroptera, Mammalia, Animals, Humans, Animalia, Chordata

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