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Epidemiology and Public Health Human and Animal Health Unit. Epidemiology of Ebola in West Africa: Jakob Zinsstag Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Epidemiology and Public HealthHuman and Animal Health Unit Epidemiology of Ebola in West Africa: Jakob Zinsstag Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Formenty et al. (1999). Human Infection Due Ebola Virus, Subtype Côte d’Ivoire: Clinical and Biologic Presentation. Journal of Infectious Diseases,179 Suppl. 1 S48-53.
Zinsstag et al. (2005) Potential of cooperation between human and animal health to strengthen health systems. Lancet; 366: 2142-45
Formenty et al. (1999) Ebola Virus Outbreak among Wild Chimpanzees Living in a Rain Forest of Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Infectious Diseases ;179 Suppl 1: 120-126 November 1994: ~8 dead chimpanzees in the Taï Forest National Park, point-source Epidemic (meat consumption of smaller monkeys suspected (Cercopithecus)), earlier epidemic likely in 1992. Chimpanzees cannot be a reservoir
Pigott et al. (2014) Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa. eLIFE, 3:e04395 Reservoir ecosystem: Tropical rain forest Fruitbats Humans Wildlife: i.e. Chimpanzees
The social-ecologicalsystemsdynamicsof Ebola in West Africa • Presumptiveunderlyingmechanismsoftheemergenceof Ebola • Changes in the agro-ecosystemfromsubsistencefarmingtoincreasingly • industrializedfarming Habitat changeoffruitbatsbyindustrialized • agro-forestrylikeoilpalmproduction. • Socialchangetowards a proletarizationoffarmersbecomingoilpalmfruitpickers Wallace et al. (2014) Did Ebola Emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phase change in agroecology ? Environment and Planning A 2014; volume 46(11) 2533-2542