The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and then spreads in the human population through. Nomenclature and databasecompatible names for the two ebola virus variants that emerged in guinea and the democratic republic of the congo in 2014. Realtime, portable genome sequencing for ebola surveillance. Ebola epidemic a potential threat to global security, obama.
Unidentified, joel breman international commission for the investigation and control of ebola. Avisos epidemiologicos virus ebola 2016 al pais africano. Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever viral diseases enivd. Dujeu, denis courtois, sister marcella, peter piot, stefan pattyn, m. Ebola is the term for the viral genus ebolavirus ebov, or for the disease ebola hemorrhagic fever ehf. Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as ebola virus i. Ebola epidemic a potential threat to global security.
The ebola virus disease epidemic in west africa is the largest on record, responsible for over 28,599 cases and more than 11,299 deaths 1. Infecciones por importancia ebolavirus y marburgvirus. Introduction to ebola virus disease world health organization. Ebola disease is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. There are six known species of viruses within the genus ebolavirus. Aug 23, 2018 please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report. It is named after the ebola river, where the first recognized outbreak occurred. Il virus ebola o virus di ebola ebov, in precedenza denominato zaire ebolavirus, e lunico ceppo della specie zaire ebolavirus, una delle cinque specie del genere ebolavirus, che a sua volta fa parte della famiglia filoviridae dellordine dei mononegavirales, virus a rna a singolo filamento negativo ssrna. Ebola virus has caused the majority of human deaths from evd, and was the cause of the. The present volume contains the full proceedings papers and discussions of the international. Electron micrographs show long filaments, characteristic of the filoviridae viral family. Genome sequencing in viral outbreaks is desirable to. Four of the six known ebolaviruses, including ebov, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals, known as ebola virus disease evd.
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