‘Ebola-Free’ Doesn’t Mean The Disease Is Gone Forever

   Source: Npr May 1, 2016 No Comments

Category: Audio, Life & Society Topics: Africa, Disease, Ebola, Health Views: 2942
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Just when health officials think the Ebola outbreak is over in West Africa, the virus pops up again seemingly out of the blue. It's happened at least five times so far.

Now scientists are starting to figure out why: The virus can lay dormant in a survivor for more than year and then reemerge to infect others.

It's called a "persistent infection." It's rare. But it has played a big role in keeping Ebola around in Liberia, an international team of scientists report Friday in the journal Science Advances.

  Category: Audio, Life & Society
  Topics: Africa, Disease, Ebola, Health
Views: 2942

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