Global & Disaster Medicine

Presence and Persistence of Ebola or Marburg Virus in Patients and Survivor

March 1st, 2016

Brainard J, Pond K, Hooper L, Edmunds K, Hunter P (2016) Presence and Persistence of Ebola or Marburg Virus in Patients and Survivors: A Rapid Systematic Review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(2): e0004475. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004475

Ebola Research

 

“…….Blood products were confirmed as likely to be highly infectious among actively ill cases. In actively ill patients, filovirus was often found in non-blood body fluids. However, (apart from in semen), it is rare for viable virus to be found in survivors…..”

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