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World’s latest Ebola virus outbreak sat 'hidden' in infected human body for seven years

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxThe latest Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea has thought to have been caused by a person who was infected over seven years ago.At a briefing by the World Health Organization, top emergency official Mike Ryan said that the early findings based on original genetic sequencing were ‘remarkable’.Findings showed that the most recent virus and one from seven years ago were genetically similar.This means the virus did not transmit from animals to humans like most scientists had thought but were hidden in a human body.Scientists knew the Ebola virus could persist for a long time in the human body following a survivor who shed the virus in his semen.

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