Ebola -- DR Congo
There are fears of a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after the country has been hit with new cases of the disease.
It's known that Ebola can linger in bodily fluids, namely semen, for over a year after the initial infection. A 2016 study published in the Lancet Global Health found that 24 out of 429 men in Liberia tested positive for Ebola in their semen at least 12 months after they'd recovered from the disease. In one of the men, Ebola virus RNA was
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8189771&promed&0
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