Clinical profile and containment of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in two large West African cities, Nigeria, July –September 2014

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever illness caused by a filovirus. Since its discovery in Zaire in 1976, human EVD infections have been rare but repeated among people living in forest communities of endemic central and east African countries. The endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, and Gabon. Between 1976 and 2013, only two countries outside the endemic region recorded Ebola cases. In 1994, an ethnologist was infected by a novel Ebola subtype from a wild chimpanzee in C ôte d’Ivoire.

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 26, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Chima Ohuabunwo, Celestine Ameh, Oyin Oduyebo, Anthony Ahumibe, Bamidele Mutiu, Adebola Olayinka, Wasiu Gbadamosi, Erika Garcia, Carolina Nanclares, Wale Famiyesin, Abdulaziz Mohammed, Patrick Nguku, Richard I. Koko, Joshua Obasanya, Durojaye Adebayo, Yem Source Type: research