Ebola Virus Transmission Initiated by Relapse of Systemic Ebola Virus Disease

Published on April 28, 2021

Authors initiated epidemiologic and genomic investigations that showed that the patient had had a relapse of acute EVD that led to a transmission chain resulting in 91 cases across six health zones over 4 months. The New England Journal of Medicine

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