Serologic Evidence of Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Spillover in Rural Liberia
These findings demonstrate a significant spillover of filoviruses, bunyaviruses, flaviviruses, and alphaviruses in rural Liberia in contrast with an absence of detected outbreaks. These data support the need for enhanced surveillance and understanding of the ecological and behavioral risk factors for zoonotic spillover events, across a spectrum of disease presentation, given their potential and ongoing threat to global public health.
Authors
- Adam Schafer
- Amara Fofana
- McKenzie Colt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7141-1179)
- Jefferson Sibley
- Randal J. Schoepp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5026-0404)
- Alex Sampson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5276-1643)
- Keersten M. Ricks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2854-9308)
- Chanhwa Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-3887)
- Catherine Nimely
- Emmanuel Kerkula
- Alfred Flomo
- Stanley Kerkula
- Thomas Sumo
- Fred Flomo
- Samuel Vouh
- Jacob A. Dillard
- William A Fischer II
- Eleanor Rose Watts
- Katie R Mollan
- Minnie Ricks
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Environment Agency (GB)
- Boone Hospital Center (US)
- United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (US)
- Centre for Global Health Research (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofag100
- Primary Topic
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00