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WHO conducting Emergency Meeting for EBOLA outbreak-Cases spreading to. MORE cities Page 8
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[quote:Aya house ca:MV8zOTE3Nzg3XzcwNzI0ODQ5X0Q4RDhCQTEy] Slightly off topic, but a reminder that what we think of as the Ebola virus, may not all be the same. A new strain was discovered in Sierra Leone in bats, and we have much to learn from it. This also means there may very well be other Ebola virus types, which may show differences in how they spread or how deadly they may be. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/new-ebola-virus-species-bats-sierra-leone [b] A new species of Ebola virus has been discovered in bats in Sierra Leone, the country’s government announced July 26. [/b]Researchers looking to identify new viruses before the pathogens spill over into human populations found the new Ebola strain while sampling bats in the northern Bombali district. This is the sixth known species of the virus. RNA analysis of the virus revealed that it is “definitely related to other Ebola viruses,” says Tracey Goldstein, a pathologist at University of California, Davis, who is with the virus-hunting PREDICT project. “[b]But [it] was quite different.”[/b] [/quote]
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WHO to hold emergency meeting over Congo Ebola outbreak that’s seen 33 cases in past week
The committee of experts may make recommendations to manage the outbreak, which was declared on Aug. 1 and has worsened, with a risk of the virus spreading from northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda and Rwanda.
Congo’s health ministry said on Monday that in the past week alone 33 people were confirmed with Ebola virus and 24 of them died.
The ministry said the latest cases were confirmed between Oct. 8 and 14. In total, more than 200 suspected cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever have been reported in this outbreak, all but a couple of dozen of them confirmed, while some 130 people have died since July.
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