Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife

By E. Leroy, P. Rouquet, Pierre Formenty, S. Souquière, Annelisa Kilbourne, J. Froment, M. Bermejo, S. Smit, W. Karesh, R. Swanepoel and 2 more. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change (2013, unknown): “The emergence of HIV is believed to have arisen from hunting of nonhuman primates for food in central African forests, and outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever have been associated with hunting in Gabon and the Republic of Congo (9, 15, 17).”
What hope for African primate diversity (2006, background): “J. Ecol., 44, 116–133 outbreaks of the Ebola virus that have contributed to the reduction of gorilla and chimpanzee populations by more than 50% over a broad geographic range in western equatorial Africa between 1983 and 2000 (Walsh et al., 2003; Leroy et al., 2004).”
The role of infectious diseases in biological conservation (2009, background): “Even more impressive than its wide host range, is the fact that severe sarcoptic mange epizootics have occurred in populations of wild carnivores around the world (i.e. coyotes, foxes and grey wolves in North America; artic foxes, red foxes, lynx and grey wolves in Europe, foxes and dingoes in Austr”
Ape Abundance and Habitat Use in the Goualougo Triangle, Republic of Congo (2006, background): “Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) and western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) populations in central Africa are rapidly declining as a result of disease epidemics, commercial bushmeat hunting, and habitat destruction (Huijbregts et al., 2003; Leroy et al., 2004; Walsh et al., 2003).”
Wildlife Trade and Global Disease Emergence (2005, background): “Recent Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans have been traced to index patient contact with infected great apes that are hunted for food (15).”