In most cases, the time between the onset of symptoms and the fatalities has been 48 hours.
A total of 419 cases have been recorded, with 53 people losing their lives to the mysterious disease.
All samples tested negative for Ebola or other common hemorrhagic fever diseases like Marburg.
Zoonotic diseases have affected people in Africa for centuries, especially in regions where consumingwildlifeis common.
Coronaviruses are also zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.
Zoonotic diseases are brought on by spillover events from animals to humans.
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With improved transportation in Africa, there is an increased threat of zoonotic pathogens traveling to large urban centers.
In 2013, West Africas Ebolaepidemicbecame widespread when it arrived in capital cities, killing over 10,000 people.
The virus is believed to have started when it was transmitted from infectedfruit batsto the human population.
The first cases of the epidemicthe most widespread Ebola outbreak in historywere recorded in Guinea in December 2013.
Then, the disease spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.
They began to decline through a combination of vaccines, public health measures, and international cooperation.
The Ebola outbreak was declared over in June 2016.
The Ebola virus remains the deadliest, with up to 90% of cases being fatal.
There were 416 reported cases of the unknown illness, with 31 people succumbing to it in hospitals.
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