Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
A few years ago, only some students of geography knew that Ebola was the name of a small river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976, in the village of Yambuku, a man died of a rare hemorrhagic fever which alerted the scientific world. Rumor has it that this man bought a fruit bat and later c...
- Autores:
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Coiffman, Felipe
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2016
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/65211
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/65211
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/66234/
- Palabra clave:
- 61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health
ébola
salud pública
virus
ebola
virus
public health
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | A few years ago, only some students of geography knew that Ebola was the name of a small river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976, in the village of Yambuku, a man died of a rare hemorrhagic fever which alerted the scientific world. Rumor has it that this man bought a fruit bat and later cooked and ate it, along with his family; some days later, all of them died. The cause of these deaths was a virus that was later called the Ebola virus (1). After this event, the epidemic spread throughout the town and then to other places. Today, about 4 000 people worldwide have been killed by the virus, including one case in the United States, two in Spain and one in Brazil. Only 1 in 10 infected patients survive and poor calculations estimate 20 000 people infected, especially in the West African republics. |
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