TY - JOUR AU - Peterson, A. Townsend AU - Bauer, John T. AU - Mills, James N. T1 - Ecologic and Geographic Distribution of Filovirus Disease T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 40 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We used ecologic niche modeling of outbreaks and sporadic cases of filovirus-associated hemorrhagic fever (HF) to provide a large-scale perspective on the geographic and ecologic distributions of Ebola and Marburg viruses. We predicted that filovirus would occur across the Afrotropics: Ebola HF in the humid rain forests of central and western Africa, and Marburg HF in the drier and more open areas of central and eastern Africa. Most of the predicted geographic extent of Ebola HF has been observed; Marburg HF has the potential to occur farther south and east. Ecologic conditions appropriate for Ebola HF are also present in Southeast Asia and the Philippines, where Ebola Reston is hypothesized to be distributed. This first large-scale ecologic analysis provides a framework for a more informed search for taxa that could constitute the natural reservoir for this virus family. KW - filoviridae, filovirus, hemorrhagic fever KW - Ebola virus, Marburg virus, mathematical model, ecologic niche KW - Côte d'Ivoire KW - Liberia KW - Sudan KW - Uganda KW - Democratic Republic of Congo KW - Gabon KW - Zimbabwe KW - Kenya KW - Papua New Guinea KW - Indonesia KW - Philippines KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid1001.030125 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/1/03-0125_article ER - End of Reference