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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 711-713Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid1704.100883
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- National Institutes of Health (Northeast Biodefense Center) [A157158]
- US Agency for International Development (Center for Infection and Immunity) [07-301-7119-52258]
- US Agency for International Development Predict Emerging Pandemic Threats (University of California, Davis)
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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The genetic relatedness of mountain gorillas and humans has led to concerns about interspecies transmission of infectious agents. Human-to-gorilla transmission may explain human metapneumovirus in 2 wild mountain gorillas that died during a respiratory disease outbreak in Rwanda in 2009. Surveillance is needed to ensure survival of these critically endangered animals.
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