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Ebola Conquers West Africa — More to Come?

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: In 1976, the world's attention was caught by two almost simultaneous outbreaks of a new and then a mysterious virus named Ebola (Fig. 1) in the Sudan and what was then Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, sporadic outbreaks caused by Ebola virus have resulted in approximately 2387 cases and 1590 deaths (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/). This year, Ebola virus returned to the center stage as the Western African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are facing an unprecedented and uncontrolled outbreak caused by a new Zaire ebolavirus strain that has been linked by epidemiological evidence to a potential “patient zero” who succumbed to infection in December, 2013 (Baize et al., 2014).

Source: EBioMedicine

DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2014.10.004

Authors: Peter Halfmann, Gabriele Neumann, Heinz Feldmann, Yoshihiro Kawaoka

Institutions: University of Wisconsin–Madison, National Institutes of Health, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo

Language: English

Topic: Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $5,780