http://www.mcb.uct.ac.za//ebola/ebolasho.html
Excerpts on Ebola virus from:
EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING VIRUSES: AN ESSAY
By:
Alison Jacobson
Department of Microbiology
University of Cape Town
...
The index case in 1976 was never identified, but this large outbreak resulted in 280 deaths of 318 infections. The outbreak was primarily the result of person to person spread and transmission by contaminated needles in outpatient and inpatient departments of a hospital and subsequent person to person spread in surrounding villages. In serosurveys in Zaire, antibody prevalence to Ebola virus has been 3 to 7%. The incubation period for needle- transmitted Ebola virus is 5 to 7 days and that for person to person transmitted disease is 6 to 12 days...
EMERGING AND RE-EMERGING VIRUSES: AN ESSAY
By:
Alison Jacobson
Department of Microbiology
University of Cape Town
...
The index case in 1976 was never identified, but this large outbreak resulted in 280 deaths of 318 infections. The outbreak was primarily the result of person to person spread and transmission by contaminated needles in outpatient and inpatient departments of a hospital and subsequent person to person spread in surrounding villages. In serosurveys in Zaire, antibody prevalence to Ebola virus has been 3 to 7%. The incubation period for needle- transmitted Ebola virus is 5 to 7 days and that for person to person transmitted disease is 6 to 12 days...
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