Safari Saeed, Baratloo Alireza, Rouhipour Alaleh, Ghelichkhani Parisa, Yousefifard Mahmood
Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Pediatrics, Valeeasr Hospital, Ghazvin University of Medical Sciences, Abyek, Iran.
Emerg (Tehran). 2015 Winter;3(1):3-7.
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.
埃博拉出血热（EHF）于1976年首次报告，当时在刚果民主共和国的扬布库（靠近埃博拉河）和苏丹的恩扎拉同时爆发了急性病毒性出血热。当前的埃博拉病毒疫情始于2014年3月在几内亚东南部森林地区报告的首例病例。由于感染率在6个月内上升了超过13000%，埃博拉现在被视为全球公共卫生紧急事件，2014年8月8日，世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布该疫情为国际关注的突发公共卫生事件。此次事件涉及5000多例病例，近3000人死亡，已成为世界上最大、最危险的埃博拉病毒疫情。基于上述情况，本文旨在综述埃博拉病毒病的病毒学特征、传播、临床表现、诊断、治疗和预防。
