Other Human Disease — Gabon
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS [French National Centre for Scientific Research] have identified 2 new strains of the HTLV-4 virus in 2 hunters who were bitten by gorillas in Gabon. These findings, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, support the notion that gorillas represent a major source of infectious agents that can be passed on to humans.
Many of the viral pathogenic agents that have emerged in humans in recent decades are of animal origin —
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