Publication Date:
2006-12-13
Description:
Over the past decade, the Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) has repeatedly emerged in Gabon and Congo. Each human outbreak has been accompanied by reports of gorilla and chimpanzee carcasses in neighboring forests, but both the extent of ape mortality and the causal role of ZEBOV have been hotly debated. Here, we present data suggesting that in 2002 and 2003 ZEBOV killed about 5000 gorillas in our study area. The lag between neighboring gorilla groups in mortality onset was close to the ZEBOV disease cycle length, evidence that group-to-group transmission has amplified gorilla die-offs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bermejo, Magdalena -- Rodriguez-Teijeiro, Jose Domingo -- Illera, German -- Barroso, Alex -- Vila, Carles -- Walsh, Peter D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Dec 8;314(5805):1564.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ecosystemes Forestiers d'Afrique Centrale (ECOFAC), Box Postale 15115 Libreville, Gabon. magda_bermejo@yahoo.es〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17158318" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Ape Diseases/epidemiology/*mortality/transmission
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Democratic Republic of the Congo/epidemiology
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Disease Outbreaks/*veterinary
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Disease Reservoirs
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*Gorilla gorilla
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/epidemiology/mortality/transmission/*veterinary
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Population Density
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Population Dynamics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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