Ebola Survivor Infected Years Ago May Have Started New Outbreak

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/health/ebola-old-infection-new-outbreak.html

 

Genetic sequencing of virus samples from patients in Guinea suggest that the new outbreak is a continuation of the 2014-16 epidemic.

 

Researchers were shocked to discover that an Ebola outbreak in Guinea was most likely started by a man infected at least five years ago. Here a hospital worker in Guinea is given an Ebola vaccine.Credit...Carol Valade/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

By Denise Grady

March 12, 2021

An Ebola outbreak now occurring in Guinea was almost certainly started by someone who survived West Africa’s historic 2014-16 epidemic, harbored the virus for at least five years and then transmitted it via semen to a sex partner, researchers reported on Friday.

 

The finding, based on genetic sequencing of virus samples taken from patients in the current outbreak, shocked researchers. Until now, the longest the virus had been known to persist in a survivor was 500 days.

 

“It’s a stunner,” Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious-disease expert at Vanderbilt University who was not involved in the research, said in an interview. “This is an extraordinary phenomenon.”

 

The current outbreak in Guinea was first recognized in January and has infected at least 18 people and killed nine.

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