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Olivero-Anarte, Jesús Fa, Julia E. Real-Giménez, Raimundo Márquez-Moya, Ana Luz Farfán-Aguilar, Miguel Ángel Vargas, Juan Mario Gaveau, David Salim, Mohammad Park, Douglas Suter, Jamison King, Shona Leendertz, Siv Aina Sheil, Douglas Nasi, Robert 2024-02-05T07:26:16Z 2024-02-05T07:26:16Z 2017-10 Olivero, J., Fa, J.E., Real, R. et al. Recent loss of closed forests is associated with Ebola virus disease outbreaks. Sci Rep 7, 14291 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14727-9 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29740 10.1038/s41598-017-14727-9 Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a contagious, severe and often lethal form of hemorrhagic fever in humans. The association of EVD outbreaks with forest clearance has been suggested previously but many aspects remained uncharacterized. We used remote sensing techniques to investigate the association between deforestation in time and space, with EVD outbreaks in Central and West Africa. Favorability modeling, centered on 27 EVD outbreak sites and 280 comparable control sites, revealed that outbreaks located along the limits of the rainforest biome were signifcantly associated with forest losses within the previous 2 years. This association was strongest for closed forests (>83%), both intact and disturbed, of a range of tree heights (5–>19m). Our results suggest that the increased probability of an EVD outbreak occurring in a site is linked to recent deforestation events, and that preventing the loss of forests could reduce the likelihood of future outbreaks. eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Deforestación - Africa Enfermedad por el virus de Ebola Recent loss of closed forests is associated with Ebola virus disease outbreaks journal article