The spin machine is once again running hot - "Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/health/ebola-bat-liberia-epidemic.html …
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@nytimes article states "Scientists have long suspected that bats were a natural host of Ebola and a source of some human infections, but until now they had not found any bats that harbored the epidemic species". This is wrong - EBOV was sequenced (fragments) in bats in 2005Deze collectie tonen
Here's the link to that original Nature article sequencing PCR fragments of Ebola virus sequences obtained in multiple bat specimens:https://www.nature.com/articles/438575a …
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@EcoHealthNYC - well crafted and measured. I agree with them that discovering EBOV in a bat in West Africa is interesting - only, I could do without the hype (which isn't too bad in this release!). https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2019/01/ecohealth-alliance-scientists-discover-the-deadly-zaire-ebola-virus-in-west-african-bat …Deze collectie tonenBedankt, Twitter gebruikt dit om je tijdlijn te verbeteren. Ongedaan makenOngedaan maken
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PCR fragments with the right sequence, nothing less, nothing more. No full genome, no virus isolation from bat sample. So the ultimate proof of natural reservoir host in any bat species still not completed.
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Correct - none of this proves that bats are the reservoir. It does, however, lend credence to that hypothesis - which, given what we know about other fillos, is a reasonable hypothesis in the first place. Are bats the reservoir? Maybe, maybe not - but best hypothesis for now IMO
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