Warning: Ebola arrived in Columbus land
A few years ago, only some students of geography knew that Ebola was the name of a small river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976, in the village of Yambuku, a man died of a rare hemorrhagic fever which alerted the scientific world. Rumor has it that this man bought a fruit bat and later c...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio UN |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/65211 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/65211 http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/66234/ |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health ébola salud pública virus ebola public health |
| Sumario: | A few years ago, only some students of geography knew that Ebola was the name of a small river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1976, in the village of Yambuku, a man died of a rare hemorrhagic fever which alerted the scientific world. Rumor has it that this man bought a fruit bat and later cooked and ate it, along with his family; some days later, all of them died. The cause of these deaths was a virus that was later called the Ebola virus (1). After this event, the epidemic spread throughout the town and then to other places. Today, about 4 000 people worldwide have been killed by the virus, including one case in the United States, two in Spain and one in Brazil. Only 1 in 10 infected patients survive and poor calculations estimate 20 000 people infected, especially in the West African republics. |
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