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In the beginning jazz was widely seen as an unwanted African virus -- something that gave the fevers, led to sexual deviation and dementia.
A3 African Virus Milestone Scientists trying to develop vaccines against Africa's deadly Marburg and Ebola viruses are reporting an important milestone, a new type of vaccine that prevents the diseases in monkeys.
The virus's arrival as a more virulent form makes it similar to West Nile, an African virus that appeared in the United States in 1999.
Phylogenetic comparison to all 20 genomes from earlier outbreaks suggests that the 2014 West African virus likely spread from central Africa within the past decade.
The perception is that Zika was an innocuous mosquito-borne African virus that suddenly snuck up on Latin America.
An African virus that historically rarely infected people is spreading in the Americas, apparently causing the babies of infected mothers to be born with deformed heads.
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These analyses have previously identified two major topotypes (eastern and western), represented by the Australasian, or American and African viruses respectively.
Importantly, none of the mutations known to be related to resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors [14] were observed in any of the African viruses isolated from birds.
At the time of this investigation, they represented 60% of the sequences deposited in public databases (GenBank and GISAID) originating from African viruses.
This is particularly evident for the viruses identified in Egypt, Israel and Gaza, which cluster together in the same branch of the phylogenetic tree and are distinguishable from the other African viruses.
In order to present a more complete picture of the genetic properties of the viruses circulating in Africa, the amino acid sequences of the African viruses available in the public database were also included in the present analysis.
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