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Reston Ebolavirus |
| Ebola | ||
| ICD-10 | A98.4 | |
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| ICD-9 | 065.8 | |
| DiseasesDB | 18043 | |
| MedlinePlus | 001339 | |
| MeSH | C02.782.417.415 | |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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Ebola Microchapters |
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Postmortem Care |
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Case Studies |
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Ebola On the Web |
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American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Ebola |
Overview
Classification
Historical Perspective
Pathophysiology
Epidemiology & Demographics
Risk Factors
Causes
Differentiating Ebola
Natural history, Complications, and Prognosis
Diagnosis
History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Laboratory tests | Case Studies
Treatment
Medical therapy | Primary prevention | Secondary prevention | Financial costs | Future therapies
See also
- Dr. Ngoy Mushola
- Needle remover
- Sharps waste
- Bolivian haemorrhagic fever
- Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF)
- Marburg haemorrhagic fever, the first known disease caused by a filovirus
- Dr. Matthew Lukwiya (1957-Dec 5, 2000), A Ugandan doctor at the forefront of the 2000 outbreak.
- Dr. Jonah Kule, (-Dec 4, 2007)
- VHFs
- Epidemiology
- Bushmeat
External links
Overviews
- Database entry on genus Ebolavirus - ICTVdB
- Ebola Virus Haemorrhagic Fever - Proceedings of an International Colloquium on Ebola Virus Infection and Other Haemorrhagic Fevers held in Antwerp, Belgium, 6-8 December, 1977
- Questions and Answers about Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever - Center for Disease Control (CDC), retrieved 10 July 2006
- WHO Factsheet - retrieved 10 July 2006
- Vaccine Research Center (VRC) - Information concerning Ebola vaccine research studies
Outbreaks
- Ebola outbreak in Congo - CBC News, 12 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- Ebola 'kills over 5,000 gorillas' - BBC News, 8 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-12-08.
- History of Ebola Outbreaks - Centers for Disease Control Special Pathogens Branch, retrieved 2006-07-10.
- Infection Control for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers in the African Health Care Setting - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, December 1998.
- Filovirus Global Symposium - Filomeeting 2008
Life Cycle
- Biomarker Database - information on Ebola
Infectivity
- U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases: Gene-Specific Ebola Therapies Protect Nonhuman Primates from Lethal Disease
- Lethal experimental infection of rhesus monkeys with Ebola-Zaire (Mayinga) virus by the oral and conjunctival route of exposure PubMed, February 1996, Jaax et al.
- Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola and marburg virus PubMed, August 1995
- Marburg and Ebola viruses as aerosol threats PubMed, 2004, USAMRIID
- Other viral bioweapons: Ebola and Marburg hemorrhag fever PubMed, 2004
- Transmission of Ebola virus (Zaire strain) to uninfected control monkeys in a biocontainment laboratory PubMed, December 1993
- What is the probability of a dangerous strain of Ebola mutating and becoming airborne? Brett Russel, retrieved 2006-07-10.