I didn't blog this one earlier in April when it was mentioned in the literature, but have been reminded of it by Secret Squirrel D in relation to my last post.[1]The main gist of the Letter to Lancet Infectious Diseases by Colebunders and Van den Ende [2] is that there was a clinically compatible outbreak of disease in Bili, Democratic Republic of Congo in 1956 - 20 years earlier than the first documented...
Yes, there were signs that Ebola was in west Africa, perhaps as far back as 1973...
If a bat carries Ebola virus in the forest, people find signs of infection in humans, publish it and read about it, but no-one remembers, does it make a sound?Apparently, it now does. The New York times [3] has found that there were studies reporting signs of Ebola virus antibodies in humans in Liberia...
