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Is there an Ebola season?

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has two seasons (dry and rain). However this allocation across the country is totally different in terms of length. read more

Ebola as a virus is unlikely to have a season, but the seasons affect both human and wildlife behavior. For example, ice cream sales and crime rates increase in the summer, but ice cream sales do not cause crime, rather during the summer the hot weather makes people buy more cold foods and children are not in school, so both increase. read more

Few people travel between those two regions, and Guéckédou, the remote epicenter of first cases of disease, is far off the beaten path, Bausch said. read more

Ebola-Reston virus was introduced into quarantine facilities in Sienna by monkeys imported from the same export facility in the Philippines that was involved in the episodes in the United States. People were not infected. 1 . 1 World Health Organization. Viral haemorrhagic fever in imported monkeys [PDF-799KB]. read more

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