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Ebola map shows people in more African regions risk infection from animals
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Sept 8 Mon Sep 8, 2014 10:05am EDT
(Reuters) - Scientists have created a new map of places most at risk of an Ebola outbreak and say regions likely to be home to animals harbouring the virus are more widespread than previously feared, particularly in West Africa.
Understanding better where people come into contact with Ebola-infected animals - for example through hunting or eating bush meat - and how to stop them contracting the deadly disease, is crucial to preventing future outbreaks, the researchers said.
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The new map, published on Monday as the death toll in the West Africa Ebola outbreak, the world's largest, stood at almost 2,100, found that large swathes of central Africa as well as the western part of the continent have traits of what the scientists called "the zoonotic niche" for Ebola.
To see the map, go to here
Nick Golding, an Oxford University researcher who worked on the international mapping team, said it found significantly more regions at risk from Ebola than previously feared.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/08/us-health-ebola-map-idUSKBN0H314G20140908
By Kate Kelland
LONDON, Sept 8 Mon Sep 8, 2014 10:05am EDT
(Reuters) - Scientists have created a new map of places most at risk of an Ebola outbreak and say regions likely to be home to animals harbouring the virus are more widespread than previously feared, particularly in West Africa.
Understanding better where people come into contact with Ebola-infected animals - for example through hunting or eating bush meat - and how to stop them contracting the deadly disease, is crucial to preventing future outbreaks, the researchers said.
...
The new map, published on Monday as the death toll in the West Africa Ebola outbreak, the world's largest, stood at almost 2,100, found that large swathes of central Africa as well as the western part of the continent have traits of what the scientists called "the zoonotic niche" for Ebola.
To see the map, go to here
Nick Golding, an Oxford University researcher who worked on the international mapping team, said it found significantly more regions at risk from Ebola than previously feared.
...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/08/us-health-ebola-map-idUSKBN0H314G20140908