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Review
. 2015 Winter;3(1):3-7.

Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; a Review Article

Saeed Safari  1 , Alireza Baratloo  1 , Alaleh Rouhipour  2 , Parisa Ghelichkhani  3 , Mahmood Yousefifard  4
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Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; a Review Article

Saeed Safari et al. Emerg (Tehran). 2015 Winter.

Abstract

Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) was first reported in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever centered in Yambuku (near the Ebola river), Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Nzara, Sudan. The current outbreak of the Ebola virus was started by reporting the first case in March 2014 in the forest regions of southeastern Guinea. Due to infection rates raising over 13,000% within a 6-month period, Ebola is now considered as a global public health emergency and on August 8(th), 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the epidemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. With more than 5000 involved cases and nearly 3000 deaths, this event has turned into the largest and most dangerous Ebola virus outbreak in the world. Based on the above-mentioned, the present article aimed to review the virologic characteristics, transmission, clinical manifestation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Ebola virus disease.

Keywords: Ebola; Hemorrhagic fever; emergency responders; health; infection control; virology.

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