Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5656, 2004, Pages 387-390

  Leroy, Eric M ^a   Rouquet, Pierre ^b   Formenty, Pierre ^c   Souquière, Sandrine ^b   Kilbourne, Annelisa ^d   Froment, Jean Marc ^e   Bermejo, Magdalena ^e   Smit, Sheilag ^f   Karesh, William ^d   Swanepoel, Robert ^f   Zaki, Sherif R ^g   Rollin, Pierre E ^g  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e ECOFAC   (Gabon)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORESTRY;

WILDLIFE;

VIRUSES;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MORTALITY; PRIMATE; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CARCASS; CONGO; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GABON; GORILLA; HOST; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APE DISEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EBOLAVIRUS; GABON; GENES, VIRAL; GORILLA GORILLA; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RUMINANTS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; EBOLA VIRUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 9144230635     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092528     Document Type: Article

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23. The authors thank the national and international teams involved in the control of the Ebola outbreaks that occurred in Gabon and the Republic of Congo. The national teams were members of the Gabonese Health Ministry and the Health Service of the Gabonese Defense Ministry during the Gabon outbreaks, and they were members of the Congolese Health Ministry during the outbreaks in the Republic of Congo. The international teams were mainly scientific and medical experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Médecins Sans Frontières. We thank all those involved in sample collection and case reporting. We are also grateful to A. Délicat, P. Yaba, B. Kumulungui, and G. Moussavou for excellent technical assistance, D. Young and P. Telfer for help in preparing the manuscript, D. Drevet and C. Aveling for constant support and encouragement, and C. Chesley for editorial comments. Last, we thank T. G. Ksiazek from the Special Pathogens Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who generously provided reagents to the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF). CIRMF is supported by the Government of Gabon, Total-Fina-Elf Gabon, and Ministère de la Coopération Française. This work was also supported by a Fonds de Solidarité Prioritaire grant from the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères de la France (FSP no. 2002005700).