The biology of the Ebola virus and the epidemiology and pathogenesis of infection, as well as management of outbreaks, are reviewed. Recent progress has been made in the development of diagnostics,...
In 1976, an international group of scientists flew to Zaire to help elucidate and control an outbreak of lethal hemorrhagic fever. The current Ebola epidemic has much in common with that first Ebol...
IntroductionWestern Area (WA) of Sierra Leone including the capital, Freetown, experienced an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola from 2014 to 2015. At the onset of the epidemic, there was little infor...
contacts of previously antibody-positive individuals reported an Ebola-like illness. This investigation suggests that human EBO-R infection is rare. Topic: antigen assay epidemiology ebola...
Methods ; Blood samples were obtained from 20 patients who were hospitalized in Guéckédou, Macenta, and Kissidougou because of fever, diarrhea, vomiting, or hemorrhage. Demographic and clinical data for the patients were provided on the laboratory request forms. Clinical data were not collected in a systematic fashion. This work was performed as part of the public health response to contain the outbreak in Guinea; informed consent was not obtained. ...
2014-2016 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic in Sierra Leone. We... start of the international support to the local response, network epidemiology could have inferred heterogeneity in local...
Affiliation 1 Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, and Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Health, Manila, Philippines. Abstract Ebola (subtype Reston [EBO-R]) virus...
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The meaning of EPIDEMIOLOGY is a branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population.
Bat species eaten by people in central Africa show evidence of symptomless Ebola infection. Since the first human cases of Ebola virus infection were recorded in 1976, much effort has gone into the...