Tag: Boende virus

• Tuesday, September 2nd 2014 - 22:49 UTC

  Ebola outbreak in Congo is the indigenous 'Zaire strain' and not connected to West Africa

  

  Results from virus sequencing of samples from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been analyzed and they belong to the so called Zaire strain, in a lineage most closely related to a virus from the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, DRC.