Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1133105
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发表时间：
2006-12-08
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Walsh, Peter D.
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作者：
Bermejo, Magdalena;Rodriguez-Teijeiro, Jose Domingo;Walsh, Peter D.
在过去的十年中，扎伊尔型埃博拉病毒（ZEBOV）在加蓬和刚果多次出现。每一次人类爆发都伴随着邻近森林中大猩猩和黑猩猩尸体的报道，但猿类死亡的程度和ZEBOV的因果作用都引起了激烈的争论。在这里，我们目前的数据表明，在2002年和2003年ZEBOV杀死了约5000大猩猩在我们的研究领域。相邻的大猩猩群体之间的死亡时间间隔接近于ZEBOV疾病的周期长度，这表明群体间的传播放大了大猩猩的死亡。
Over the past decade, the Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) has repeatedly emerged in Gabon and Congo. Each human outbreak has been accompanied by reports of gorilla and chimpanzee carcasses in neighboring forests, but both the extent of ape mortality and the causal role of ZEBOV have been hotly debated. Here, we present data suggesting that in 2002 and 2003 ZEBOV killed about 5000 gorillas in our study area. The lag between neighboring gorilla groups in mortality onset was close to the ZEBOV disease cycle length, evidence that group-to-group transmission has amplified gorilla die-offs.