"The strain, called clade Ia, is spreading in a sustained fashion between people possibly through sexual contact in an outbreak in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)."
"We don't know how far these adaptations can go, and we are gathering data to understand how this evolution is occurring," says Placide Mbala, head of epidemiology and global health.
"Historically, clade I viruses have appeared mostly in Central Africa, and clade II viruses have cropped up in West Africa... This all changed in the mid-2010s when a clade II strain sparked an outbreak in Nigeria."
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