Open AccessRetrospective data on the study of Ebola virus in Africa
Author(s) -
А. М. Бутенко
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
èpidemiologiâ i infekcionnye bolezni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3026
pISSN - 1560-9529
DOI - 10.17816/eid40854
Subject(s) - outbreak , epidemiology , ebola virus , virology , geography , new guinea , medicine , socioeconomics , history , ethnology , pathology , sociology
The provided information based on the data of elinical, epidemiological, and serodiagnostic studies indicates both to a possible epidemic manifestation of Hbola fever in the Republic of Guinea for more than 30 years before the 2014 epidemic in West Africa, and the circulation of the Hbola virus in Guinea and other West African countries in the same period, the circulation of the Hbola virus in Zaire at least 4 years before the first recorded outbreak of the infection in 1976.