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Guinea Ebola linked to 2014 outbreak: WHO – PerthNow
Guinea’s Ebola outbreak is likely to have been sparked by a latent infection in people rather than from the virus jumping the species barrier, the WHO says.
A top official at the World Health Organisation says that a genetic analysis of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Guinea suggests it may have been sparked by a survivor of the devastating west Africa epidemic that ended five years ago.
At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan described the results of the genetic sequencing of the virus in Guinea as “quite remarkable”.
Scientists posted their results on a virology website on Friday, concluding that the current Ebola virus sickening…
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