| ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in gabon, 1994-1997: epidemiologic and health control issues. | from the end of 1994 to the beginning of 1995, 49 patients with hemorrhagic symptoms were hospitalized in the makokou general hospital in northeastern gabon. yellow fever (yf) virus was first diagnosed in serum by use of polymerase chain reaction followed by blotting, and a vaccination campaign was immediately instituted. the epidemic, known as the fall 1994 epidemic, ended 6 weeks later. however, some aspects of this epidemic were atypical of yf infection, so a retrospective check for other eti ... | 1999 | 9988167 |
| [multiple ebola virus haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in gabon, from october 2001 to april 2002]. | outbreaks of ebola virus haemorrhagic fever have been reported from 1994 to 1996 in the province of ogooué ivindo, a forest zone situated in the northeast of gabon. each time, the great primates had been identified as the initial source of human infection. end of november 2001 a new alert came from this province, rapidly confirmed as a evhv outbreak. the response was given by the ministry of health with the help of an international team under the aegis of who. an active monitoring system was imp ... | 2005 | 16267965 |
| low seroprevalence of igg antibodies to ebola virus in an epidemic zone: ogooué-ivindo region, northeastern gabon, 1997. | a population-based serosurvey was performed to determine the seroprevalence of antibodies to ebola virus (ebo) in a region that has experienced multiple epidemics of ebo hemorrhagic fever. of 2533 residents in 8 villages, serum samples from 979 (38.6%) were tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for immunoglobulin (ig) g and igm antibodies to ebola-zaire (ebo-z) virus. fourteen samples (1.4%) were found positive for igg antibodies, and 4 of these (.4%) were samples from survivors of an epid ... | 2005 | 15717273 |