Ebola Outbreak Killed 5000 Gorillas Export

@article{citeulike:1644254, abstract = {Over the past decade, the Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) has repeatedly emerged in Gabon and Congo. Each human outbreak has been accompanied by reports of gorilla and chimpanzee carcasses in neighboring forests, but both the extent of ape mortality and the causal role of ZEBOV have been hotly debated. Here, we present data suggesting that in 2002 and 2003 ZEBOV killed about 5000 gorillas in our study area. The lag between neighboring gorilla groups in mortality onset was close to the ZEBOV disease cycle length, evidence that group-to-group transmission has amplified gorilla die-offs. 10.1126/science.1133105}, author = {Bermejo, Magdalena and Rodriguez-Teijeiro, Jose D. and Illera, German and Barroso, Alex and Vila, Carles and Walsh, Peter D.}, citeulike-article-id = {1644254}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1133105}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5805/1564}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17158318}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17158318}, doi = {10.1126/science.1133105}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {congo, disease, ebola, gorilla-gorilla-gorilla, lossi, mortality}, month = {December}, number = {5805}, pages = {1564+}, posted-at = {2007-09-11 14:27:19}, priority = {0}, title = {Ebola Outbreak Killed 5000 Gorillas}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1133105}, volume = {314}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1644254 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1644254 N2 - Over the past decade, the Zaire strain of Ebola virus (ZEBOV) has repeatedly emerged in Gabon and Congo. Each human outbreak has been accompanied by reports of gorilla and chimpanzee carcasses in neighboring forests, but both the extent of ape mortality and the causal role of ZEBOV have been hotly debated. Here, we present data suggesting that in 2002 and 2003 ZEBOV killed about 5000 gorillas in our study area. The lag between neighboring gorilla groups in mortality onset was close to the ZEBOV disease cycle length, evidence that group-to-group transmission has amplified gorilla die-offs. 10.1126/science.1133105 IS - 5805 JF - Science TI - Ebola Outbreak Killed 5000 Gorillas VL - 314 SP - 1564 KW - congo KW - disease KW - ebola KW - gorilla-gorilla-gorilla KW - lossi KW - mortality AU - Bermejo, Magdalena AU - Rodriguez-Teijeiro, Jose AU - Illera, German AU - Barroso, Alex AU - Vila, Carles AU - Walsh, Peter PY - 2006/12/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1133105 ER -