A patient who seemed cured of Ebola can have infected parents

The Ebola virus may have become dormant in a patient who was thought to have been cured and who had infected others, a group of researchers showed in a study released on Tuesday. She was born again in a woman one year after surviving an acute Ebola infection, potentially causing the infection of her husband and two of her children, "summarizes The Lancet Infectious Diseases in a statement.

from Liberia who survived the disease in 2014, "had viral persistence or recurrence of the disease and transmitted the virus to other members of her family a year later", write researchers.

The riddle was the origin of the infection of a 15-year-old teenager, who showed up in a hospital in Monrovia in November 2015, while it seemed that in the Liberian capital, there was no more transmission of the virus. He died of haemorrhagic fever four days later.

Research on infection showed that her 33-year-old mother probably had the disease in July 2014. Apparently, she had been treated without treatment or medical consultation. The consequence was a miscarriage

The transmission seems to have occurred through the father, who went to the hospital the same day as two of his children in 2015. He survived just like his younger son , 8 years old. 19659002] Scientists already knew that the virus could be transmitted by the sperm of men who seemed cured. There remains the question of whether other bodily fluids could transmit the virus.

"We do not have a clear indication of the mode of transmission of the mother to her husband." […] Most likely, transmission between family members took place, a close physical interaction, "the researchers said.

This case shows that outbreaks of infection may re-emerge.

"Despite the current lack of active Ebola virus transmission chains in West Africa, its persistence could lead to an ongoing risk that cases will reappear and present the potential for an epidemic on a large scale, they are not quickly detected and controlled, "says one of the study's leaders, Emily Kainne Dokubo, of the Center for Control, and US Disease Prevention

. Liberia was the country most affected by the most deadly Ebola epidemic, between 2013 and 2016, with 4,800 deaths.