Following
previous outbreaks of the virus in northeastern Gabon and in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo in 2001, the Gabonese and Congolese ministries of forestry and environment, along with several wildlife organizations, implemented a temporary Animal Mortality Monitoring Network.
Not exact matches
In the past two years, genetic sequence information
of the flu -
virus protein hemagglutinin from only two influenza strains from India has been deposited into publicly available influenza databases, making it difficult to determine exactly which strain is causing the new
outbreak, and how it differs from
previous strains.
Two
of the three
previous outbreaks of Marburg in the wild have been traced to people who spent time in caves, and scientists have suspected that bats or cave - dwelling rats might harbor the
virus.
Due to the sheer scale
of this
outbreak compared to
previous ones we are going to see aspects
of Ebola
virus infection that we have not observed before.
Publishing in The Lancet journal a group
of researchers have analysed data from a
previous outbreak of Zika
virus in French Polynesia and report that
of 42 patients diagnosed with Guillain - Barré syndrome at the time, all showed signs
of an immune response against Zika whereas only half
of those in a control group did.
The West African Ebola epidemic dwarfed all
previous central African
outbreaks of the
virus, sickening more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000
of them.