In a shocking discovery, it was reported that the recent Ebola outbreak in Guinea was spread from a man who survived the deadly virus five years ago.
Scientists have concluded that the Guinea revolution is definitely spread from someone who survived the 2014-2016 epidemic in West Africa.
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The man who survived the Ebola virus five years ago has transmitted the virus through semen to a sex partner, reports say.
This was decoded by genetic sequencing of virus samples taken from patients with the conventional Ebola outbreak. Described as a ‘stunner’, this virus is known to usually last for 500 days.
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“Ebolaviruses are not herpesviruses (known to cause long-lasting infections) and RNA viruses usually do not just hang around without reproducing at all,” the geologist Angela Rasmussen of Georgetown University with the journal Science.
Three independent groups examining samples of four people infected with the Ebola virus in Guinea find that the genetic make-up of these samples is not very different from their predecessors seen in 2014-2016 when the virus spread in West Africa.
The genome analysis has also confirmed that the virus has not been transmitted from animals to humans, but has been transmitted from humans to humans through semen.
It also showed that the virus can stay in the human body for long periods in parts of the body’s “immune system” such as the spine, brain and eyes.