Postmortem Stability of Ebola Virus

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Mon, 2015-03-09 20:46 — mike kraft

A CDC study suggests that the Ebola virus may still be able to cause disease a week after a person infected with the virus has died.

CDC EMERGING INFECTIOUSNESS DISEASE JOURNAL March, 2015
Abstract

The ongoing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has highlighted questions regarding stability of the virus and detection of RNA from corpses. We used Ebola virus–infected macaques to model humans who died of Ebola virus disease. Viable virus was isolated 7 days posteuthanasia; viral RNA was detectable for 10 weeks.

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http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/5/15-0041_article

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