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Yesterday, 14.28
Investigadores the Carlos III Health Institute and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) have been identified in bats in the Iberian Peninsula the presence of genomic sequences of evolutionarily related viruses Ebola virus with the five currently known, according to the Ministry of Science and Innovation in a statement.
After studying the 27 species of bats present in the peninsula, the discovery took place in the 'Mineopterus schreibersii', a very heavy bat cave in Europe and living far from urban centers. These animals are protected throughout the European Union to be beneficial to humans, since they eat many of the insects harmful to crops, and in reducing pesticide use.
The Ebola virus was first detected in Africa in 1976 and has since been found and described 5 different in different countries of this continent and in the Philippines. In Africa, such viruses have traditionally been associated with outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic disease in African villages, but often have little time for his difficult to transmit between humans.
Outside this continent, and for reasons still unknown, the only Ebola virus has been detected that appears to be pathogenic for humans. This seems to be the case for this new virus as it never has been no case of such disease in Spain.
Also, people who maintain close contact with this kind of bats do not remember having had any unusual disease, although many of them relate to driving thousands of them.
The main objective of these studies is to deepen the knowledge of the virus and determine their natural reservoirs, with the aim of improving the control of viral diseases could be transmitted to man from the wild:tiphat:http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/5/20091110/tes-identifican-en-murcilagos-de-la-penn-c5455be.html
Investigadores the Carlos III Health Institute and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) have been identified in bats in the Iberian Peninsula the presence of genomic sequences of evolutionarily related viruses Ebola virus with the five currently known, according to the Ministry of Science and Innovation in a statement.
After studying the 27 species of bats present in the peninsula, the discovery took place in the 'Mineopterus schreibersii', a very heavy bat cave in Europe and living far from urban centers. These animals are protected throughout the European Union to be beneficial to humans, since they eat many of the insects harmful to crops, and in reducing pesticide use.
The Ebola virus was first detected in Africa in 1976 and has since been found and described 5 different in different countries of this continent and in the Philippines. In Africa, such viruses have traditionally been associated with outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic disease in African villages, but often have little time for his difficult to transmit between humans.
Outside this continent, and for reasons still unknown, the only Ebola virus has been detected that appears to be pathogenic for humans. This seems to be the case for this new virus as it never has been no case of such disease in Spain.
Also, people who maintain close contact with this kind of bats do not remember having had any unusual disease, although many of them relate to driving thousands of them.
The main objective of these studies is to deepen the knowledge of the virus and determine their natural reservoirs, with the aim of improving the control of viral diseases could be transmitted to man from the wild:tiphat:http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/5/20091110/tes-identifican-en-murcilagos-de-la-penn-c5455be.html