Category: Ebola

Ebola Outbreaks

Post author By miriammyvaccinecom
Post date March 3, 2021

March 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requiring airlines to collect contact information for all passengers from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid two separate Ebola outbreaks in the African countries. Link. Sequencing of samples suggests that cases are linked to cases in the area during the 2018–2020 outbreak […]

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Ebola

An Ebola virus as seen through an electron microscope, with added colour. EPA/CYNTHIA GOLDSMITH/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

The Ebola virus itself was first discovered in 1976, but it’s one of a group of viruses that cause a similar syndrome known as viral hemorrhagic fevers. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) it is thought that fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are natural Ebola virus hosts.The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals (such […]