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Ebola virus is in Guinea since 1982, according to a doctor
16 October 2014
Ebola, the virus responsible for the deaths of more than 4,000 people worldwide existed in Guinea since 1982. It is what revealed Dr. Ben Youssouf Keita, Guinean, doctor in Paris. Member of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), he argues, with supporting documentation that the Ebola virus has indeed existed in the country in the early 80s.
Haemorrhagic fever was in Guinea in 1982, according to the doctor Keita, a member of the Health and Education Committee of the Guinean Parliament. The virus responsible for this disease is among the most contagious and fatal in humans and is a serious public health problem and an obstacle to economic development. In the early 80s, Ebola and Lassa attracted the attention of researchers Guineans and Russians.
Elements of Clinical epidemiological research and laboratory hemorrhagic fevers, in Guinea published in volume 80 of the Bulletin of the Society of Exotic Pathology published in 1987 state that the Ebola virus has caused casualties in the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula (Kindia) in 1982.
This study, according to our investigations, was conducted by Guinean and Russian researchers at the Pasteur Institute based in Guinea Kindia. Among them, Professor Ibrahima Boiro, director of the Laboratory of Virology and Microbiology Institute said at the time, and Dr. Cellou Balde, current Scientific Secretary in the same research institute. Alphonse Inapogui Pema, the third Guinean, who participated in this study died there a few years ago.
What the document says
The Bulletin of the Society of Exotic Pathology, not least, spends more than five pages to study in Madina Oula in the period March-August 1982 and January 1983. During this period, outbreaks of fevers, bleeding were recorded among the inhabitants of the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula. Clinico-epidemiological research and laboratory helped to appreciate the severity of Ebola and Lassa virus in the etiology of these diseases.
During expeditions to the sub-prefecture, researchers have made consultations clinico-epidemiological populations of Madina Oula, and blood samples and also capture of small wild rodents and peridomestic. In their research, the scientists used a sample of 138 blood serum of healthy people and 79 blood serum of convalescent were collected. Rodents themselves were captured in Madina Oula and in several other areas of the prefectures of Kindia and Forecariah.
This study, which dates from 1982, a first in Guinean territory, says that cases of reported diseases in Madina Oula were characterized by a clinical picture: 'fever with headache in the early days of the disease, cough and cold, asthma, and severe chest pain in muscles, kidneys, pronounced asthenia and in some cases dizziness, anorexia, weight loss'. In other patients, the researchers reported, 'vomiting (sometimes blood), and diarrhea and hematuria were noted'.
The test results of 138 blood serum performed at the Pasteur Institute in Guinea have revealed the presence of Ebola virus antibodies in 11 cases. According to data on mobility due to hemorrhagic fevers, on 2168 inhabitants of Madina Oula in 1982, 360 have recorded cases of illness, 137 of them have succumbed to the infection.
The study also showed that all patients had regular contact with the surrounding natural environment. In most cases, even before the disease, they had carried out field work in which they had noticed the presence of a large number of rats and small rodents. According to the researchers, these animals could be the natural reservoir for the causative agents of hemorrhagic fevers. Among wild animals captured during the expeditions to Madina Oula, African rat Mastomys natalensis species were most numerous. These rodents are recognized by scientists as reservoirs and vehicles for transmission to humans of Lassa virus and Ebola virus possibly in other countries.
The virus has existed in Guinea before December 2013
Former Environment Minister, Professor Ibrahima Boiro, and director of the Laboratory of Virology, Microbiology Pasteur Institute Kindia piloted the study. However, he indicated that the Ebola virus may have existed in 1982. What is certain, he said, the team he led showed the existence of the Ebola virus in Madina Oula.
'We did serological tests and we detected Ebola antibodies in blood serum,' 'he confirms. 'I directed the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute. Meanwhile, I changed my profile, I am currently working in the environmental field. People can not say that Ebola that the Ebola virus has just arrived in Guinea. It is endemic. 'says Professor. Boiro.
British researchers have recently sequenced the genome of the Ebola virus outbreak in Sierra Leone, says former environment minister. They have found that there are at least 300 mutations between Ebola virus isolated in 1976 in Zaire and one that makes havoc today. 'I am no longer in the field. Long ago I changed my profile. I totally reconfigured. There is a team who worked on the virus in Kindia, they can serve a purpose in the fight against the disease ', has he cut short.
Confirmation of the Pasteur Institute
At the Institut Pasteur of Kindia where he held the position of Scientific Secretary, Dr. Cellou Balde admits that cases of Ebola patients were registered in 1982 in the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula. But it may be that the virus is present in Guinea several years before, he said.
'No one has contacted us since the beginning of the disease,' 'says Dr. Balde. 'We are researchers committed to a mission of the State. When we finish the research we report to the proper authorities. It is their responsibility to use wisely the results we have given them. It is not for us to revisit the responsibilities of another ', analyzes the researcher.
Is Ebola at is first appearance in Guinea? do we raise.. 'I am outraged by the fact that the people tell that the virus just appeared in our country. To say it is as if the administration is not a continuity. We have described it when we could not even think of cholera in the country. President Sekou Toure could not hear of epidemics in Guinea. We have described the virus in 1983, a year before his death. We published the results in 1987, it was up to the proper authorities to use it. These are public health outcomes. There is a structure that has been entrusted these activities, '' says Dr. Balde.
The National Coordination response against Ebola ignores this study
'This is information I learn from you. I even have the hair stand up on my head. How this study can exist without anyone speaking', wonders Fode Sylla Tass, communications officer for coordinating response against Ebola. He immediately gave us an appointment at his office to scan the document. There he changed his tone. 'The coordination is going to start to document and study it carefully,' 'Has he promised.
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Cir? BALDE, for VisionGuinee.Info
Ebola virus is in Guinea since 1982, according to a doctor
16 October 2014
Ebola, the virus responsible for the deaths of more than 4,000 people worldwide existed in Guinea since 1982. It is what revealed Dr. Ben Youssouf Keita, Guinean, doctor in Paris. Member of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), he argues, with supporting documentation that the Ebola virus has indeed existed in the country in the early 80s.
Haemorrhagic fever was in Guinea in 1982, according to the doctor Keita, a member of the Health and Education Committee of the Guinean Parliament. The virus responsible for this disease is among the most contagious and fatal in humans and is a serious public health problem and an obstacle to economic development. In the early 80s, Ebola and Lassa attracted the attention of researchers Guineans and Russians.
Elements of Clinical epidemiological research and laboratory hemorrhagic fevers, in Guinea published in volume 80 of the Bulletin of the Society of Exotic Pathology published in 1987 state that the Ebola virus has caused casualties in the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula (Kindia) in 1982.
This study, according to our investigations, was conducted by Guinean and Russian researchers at the Pasteur Institute based in Guinea Kindia. Among them, Professor Ibrahima Boiro, director of the Laboratory of Virology and Microbiology Institute said at the time, and Dr. Cellou Balde, current Scientific Secretary in the same research institute. Alphonse Inapogui Pema, the third Guinean, who participated in this study died there a few years ago.
What the document says
The Bulletin of the Society of Exotic Pathology, not least, spends more than five pages to study in Madina Oula in the period March-August 1982 and January 1983. During this period, outbreaks of fevers, bleeding were recorded among the inhabitants of the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula. Clinico-epidemiological research and laboratory helped to appreciate the severity of Ebola and Lassa virus in the etiology of these diseases.
During expeditions to the sub-prefecture, researchers have made consultations clinico-epidemiological populations of Madina Oula, and blood samples and also capture of small wild rodents and peridomestic. In their research, the scientists used a sample of 138 blood serum of healthy people and 79 blood serum of convalescent were collected. Rodents themselves were captured in Madina Oula and in several other areas of the prefectures of Kindia and Forecariah.
This study, which dates from 1982, a first in Guinean territory, says that cases of reported diseases in Madina Oula were characterized by a clinical picture: 'fever with headache in the early days of the disease, cough and cold, asthma, and severe chest pain in muscles, kidneys, pronounced asthenia and in some cases dizziness, anorexia, weight loss'. In other patients, the researchers reported, 'vomiting (sometimes blood), and diarrhea and hematuria were noted'.
The test results of 138 blood serum performed at the Pasteur Institute in Guinea have revealed the presence of Ebola virus antibodies in 11 cases. According to data on mobility due to hemorrhagic fevers, on 2168 inhabitants of Madina Oula in 1982, 360 have recorded cases of illness, 137 of them have succumbed to the infection.
The study also showed that all patients had regular contact with the surrounding natural environment. In most cases, even before the disease, they had carried out field work in which they had noticed the presence of a large number of rats and small rodents. According to the researchers, these animals could be the natural reservoir for the causative agents of hemorrhagic fevers. Among wild animals captured during the expeditions to Madina Oula, African rat Mastomys natalensis species were most numerous. These rodents are recognized by scientists as reservoirs and vehicles for transmission to humans of Lassa virus and Ebola virus possibly in other countries.
The virus has existed in Guinea before December 2013
Former Environment Minister, Professor Ibrahima Boiro, and director of the Laboratory of Virology, Microbiology Pasteur Institute Kindia piloted the study. However, he indicated that the Ebola virus may have existed in 1982. What is certain, he said, the team he led showed the existence of the Ebola virus in Madina Oula.
'We did serological tests and we detected Ebola antibodies in blood serum,' 'he confirms. 'I directed the laboratory of the Pasteur Institute. Meanwhile, I changed my profile, I am currently working in the environmental field. People can not say that Ebola that the Ebola virus has just arrived in Guinea. It is endemic. 'says Professor. Boiro.
British researchers have recently sequenced the genome of the Ebola virus outbreak in Sierra Leone, says former environment minister. They have found that there are at least 300 mutations between Ebola virus isolated in 1976 in Zaire and one that makes havoc today. 'I am no longer in the field. Long ago I changed my profile. I totally reconfigured. There is a team who worked on the virus in Kindia, they can serve a purpose in the fight against the disease ', has he cut short.
Confirmation of the Pasteur Institute
At the Institut Pasteur of Kindia where he held the position of Scientific Secretary, Dr. Cellou Balde admits that cases of Ebola patients were registered in 1982 in the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula. But it may be that the virus is present in Guinea several years before, he said.
'No one has contacted us since the beginning of the disease,' 'says Dr. Balde. 'We are researchers committed to a mission of the State. When we finish the research we report to the proper authorities. It is their responsibility to use wisely the results we have given them. It is not for us to revisit the responsibilities of another ', analyzes the researcher.
Is Ebola at is first appearance in Guinea? do we raise.. 'I am outraged by the fact that the people tell that the virus just appeared in our country. To say it is as if the administration is not a continuity. We have described it when we could not even think of cholera in the country. President Sekou Toure could not hear of epidemics in Guinea. We have described the virus in 1983, a year before his death. We published the results in 1987, it was up to the proper authorities to use it. These are public health outcomes. There is a structure that has been entrusted these activities, '' says Dr. Balde.
The National Coordination response against Ebola ignores this study
'This is information I learn from you. I even have the hair stand up on my head. How this study can exist without anyone speaking', wonders Fode Sylla Tass, communications officer for coordinating response against Ebola. He immediately gave us an appointment at his office to scan the document. There he changed his tone. 'The coordination is going to start to document and study it carefully,' 'Has he promised.
...
Cir? BALDE, for VisionGuinee.Info
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