Sierra Leone samples: Ebola evidence in West Africa in 2006

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two-thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus. The study, authored by USAMRIID and published in this month's edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, demonstrates that Ebola virus has been circulating in the region since at least 2006 -- well before the current ...