by MAGGIE FOX
The Ebola virus may not make some people sick, researchers reported Tuesday.
It shouldn't be surprising ? most viruses can cause silent infections in at least a few people. But Ebola is so notorious for causing horrific symptoms, and for being so very deadly, that no one had taken the time to see if it might not always be so bad.
In at least one village in Sierra Leone, it seems that up to a quarter of those infected may never have known it.
"Our data indicate that 25 percent of Ebola virus infections may have been minimally symptomatic," an international team of researchers writes in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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The Ebola virus may not make some people sick, researchers reported Tuesday.
It shouldn't be surprising ? most viruses can cause silent infections in at least a few people. But Ebola is so notorious for causing horrific symptoms, and for being so very deadly, that no one had taken the time to see if it might not always be so bad.
In at least one village in Sierra Leone, it seems that up to a quarter of those infected may never have known it.
"Our data indicate that 25 percent of Ebola virus infections may have been minimally symptomatic," an international team of researchers writes in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE
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