possible reservoir for Ebola/Marburg

[ae at dna.bio.warwick.ac.uk]

 mremingt at UMABNET.AB.UMD.EDU ("Mary P. Remington") writes:

>Perhaps the RNA would be lost but, the proviral DNA (assuming Ebola 
>behaves as for instance other Lentiviruses) could persist and if 
>incorporated into a cell or wound become infectious.  


There appears to be some confusion here.  Ebola is not a retrovirus and does 
not go through a DNA stage in its replication cycle.

Andrew Easton