{"id":140819,"date":"2020-12-24T00:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/doctor-who-discovered-ebola-warns-more-viruses-will-pose-threat-to-humanity-after-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-12-24T00:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:36:51","slug":"doctor-who-discovered-ebola-warns-more-viruses-will-pose-threat-to-humanity-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/doctor-who-discovered-ebola-warns-more-viruses-will-pose-threat-to-humanity-after-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"#Doctor who discovered Ebola warns more viruses will pose \u2018threat to humanity\u2019 after COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Doctor who discovered Ebola warns more viruses will pose \u2018threat to humanity\u2019 after COVID-19<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The doctor who discovered Ebola has warned more pandemics even deadlier than COVID-19 are coming to threaten humanity.<\/p>\n

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum was part of the research team which investigated the first known\u00a0outbreak of the Ebola virus<\/a>\u00a0in 1976.<\/p>\n

He now fears the world faces an unknown number of new and potentially fatal viruses emerging from Africa\u2019s tropical rainforests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now in a world where new pathogens will come out,\u201d\u00a0he told CNN.\u00a0<\/a>\u201cAnd that\u2019s what constitutes a threat for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he believes future pandemics could be more apocalyptic than COVID-19, he chillingly replied: \u201cYes, yes, I think so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers are now working to combat the threat of so-called \u2018Disease X\u2019 \u2013 a pathogen that could sweep the world as fast as Covid but with Ebola\u2019s shocking fatality rate.<\/p>\n

As a young researcher, Professor Muyembe took blood samples from victims of the then-unknown disease that killed nine out of 10 patients.<\/p>\n

Those samples were sent from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to scientists around the world who discovered a worm-shaped virus in patients\u2019 blood later named after the river Ebola.<\/p>\n

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Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum holds a test tube tray during an Ebola epidemic. <\/figcaption>
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It\u2019s believed the disease \u2013 which causes vomiting and horrific internal bleeding \u2013 first spread to humans from an animal possibly a fruit bat.<\/p>\n

Prof Muyembe now runs the Institut National de Recherche Biom\u00e9dicale in Kinshasa, capital of the DRC, and warns more zoonotic illnesses \u2013 where pathogens jump between animals and humans \u2013 are coming.<\/p>\n

Covid-19 is a zoonotic disease which some fear jumped to humans at a wet market in Wuhan, China, at the end of last year.<\/p>\n

Prof Muyembe believes the humans rapidly encroaching into the wild hugely increases the risk of new pandemics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go in the forest\u2026 you will change the ecology, and insects and rats will leave this place and come to the villages\u2026 so this is the transmission of the virus, of the new pathogens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the Congo\u2019s main exports is \u201cbushmeat\u201d from crocodiles, chimps and other exotic animals which are slaughtered and sold in street markets.<\/p>\n

Any of these animals could be harbouring a dangerous new virus just waiting to cross over to humans, fear experts.<\/p>\n

Only 15 years ago it was widely thought tropical foreststeeming with exotic wildlife threatened humans by harbouring the viruses and pathogens that lead to new diseases in humans like Ebola and dengue.<\/p>\n

But researchers now believe that it is actually humanity\u2019s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases such as COVID-19 to flourish.<\/p>\n

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Yvette Adaniya, an Ebola survivor, visits and pays her respects to the grave of her husband at a specially designated site for burials of Ebola victims, to the North of Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe invade tropical forests and other wild landscapes, which harbour so many species of animals and plants \u2013 and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses,\u201d David Quammen, author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Pandemic, wrote in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When that happ<\/a>ens, they need a new host. Often, we are it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ebola virus disease \u2013 previously called Ebola haemorrhagic fever \u2013 is a viral infection that occurs in humans and primates.<\/p>\n

The virus \u2013 which has killed tens of thousands in Africa \u2013 is part of the Filoviridae family, which also includes Marburg virus.<\/p>\n

To date, scientists have identified five strains of Ebola \u2013 four of which are known to cause disease in humans.<\/p>\n

The natural reservoir \u2013 or host of the virus \u2013 is thought to be the fruit bat.<\/p>\n

Non-human primates are a secondary host, and like humans develop fatal symptoms, so are unlikely to be the reservoir.<\/p>\n

The Ebola virus was first identified by a team of scientists in what was then called Zaire, now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1976.<\/p>\n

Infection has been recorded in humans through contact with infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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