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Ebola virus is unlikely to become endemic in West Africa

2016; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 1; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.7

2058-5276

Armand Sprecher, Heinz Feldmann, Lisa E. Hensley, Gary Wong, Stuart T. Nichol, Jim Strong, Michel Van Herp,

Zoonotic diseases and public health

Concern over Ebola becoming endemic in West Africa has appeared in the medical and lay media. Routes of transmission, rates of viral evolution, suitability of humans as hosts and rarity of spillover events make this very unlikely. Without evidence that endemic Ebola is likely, ending epidemics should remain the focus.