Ebola may have been beaten back after the outbreak in West Africa,
but that is no reason for the world to drop its guard on the deadly
incurable disease, especially after the shocking findings from the
latest research.
Scientists previously knew that fragments of the virus could survive
on after the patient had been cured in male sperm for some 82 days, and
be transmissible, but that figure has now been revised up to a full
nine months.
The report, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine,
provides the first results of a long-term study being jointly conducted
by the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
Ministry of Defence, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Source: Euronews
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