Gorillas african disappare a causa de Ebola.

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Le virus Ebola ha occidite circa 5.500 (cinque mille cinque centos) gorillas in Gabon e le Republica Democratic del Congo desde 2002 (duo mille duo), secundo Magdalena Bermejo, un primatologo al universitate de Barcelona.

Illa e su collegas ha documentate le mortes de centenas de gorillas in le sitos que illes (studia)/(sta a studiar). Plus que noventa per cento del animales con Ebola que illes ha discoperite ha morite del maladia. Studios genetic ha establite que Ebola es vermente le causa de lor mortes.

Si on extrapola le mortes in le areas studiate al ambiente total ubi vive le gorillas, il pare que le virus ha occidite vinti cinque per cento de lor population in le decennio passate.

Il anque ha altere victimas. Bermejo estima que le virus anque ha occidite plus que octanta per cento del chimpanzes in iste mesme areas.

Alicun scientistas habeva suspectate que altere animales, como verspertiliones o insectos, infectava iste gorillas con le virus Ebola. Ma patronos de distribution de iste maladia indica fortemente que le virus mesme, imitante su transmission inter humanos, anque va directemente de gorilla a gorilla.

Ebola non es le sol factor que promove le extinction del gorillas, ma Peter Walsh, un ecologo al Instituto Max Planck, insiste que il es urgente comenciar un programma de vaccination pro le gorillas nunc vivente proque le virus Ebola facilemente poterea esser le factor final que causara lor extinction complete.

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African gorillas are disappearing because of Ebola.

The Ebola virus has killed around 5,500 (five thousand five hundred) gorillas in Gabon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2002 (two thousand two), according to Magdalena Bermejo, a primatologist at the University of Barcelona.

She and her colleagues have documented the deaths of hundreds of gorillas in the sites that they are studying. More than ninety percent of the animals infected with Ebola that they have discovered have died from the malady. Genetic studies have established that Ebola is the real cause of their deaths.

If the deaths in the area studied are extrapolated to the total environment where the gorillas live, it seems that the virus has killed twenty-five percent of their population in the past ten years.

There are also other victims. Bermejo estimates that the virus has also killed more than eighty percent of the champanzees in these same areas.

Some scientists had suspected that other animals, such as bats or insects, infected these gorillas with the Ebola virus. But distribution patterns of this illness strongly indicate that the virus itself, imitating its its transmission among people, also goes directly (from gorilla to gorilla)/(from one gorilla to another).

Ebola is not the only factor that is promoting the extinction of the gorillas, but Peter Walsh, an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute, insists that it is urgent to begin a vaccination program for the gorillas that are now alive because the Ebola virus could easily be the final factor that will cause their complete extinction.