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style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;"|Ebola virus
style="background:#Template:Taxobox colour;" | Virus classification
Group: Group V ((-)ssRNA) Order: Mononegavirales Family: Filovirus Genus: Ebolavirus
Type species
Zaïre Ebolavirus
Species
Reston Ebolavirus Sudan Ebolavirus Ivory Coast Ebolavirus Bundibugyo Ebolavirus

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Michael Maddaleni, B.S.

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Treatment

Medical therapy | Primary prevention | Secondary prevention | Future therapies

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• VHFs
• Epidemiology

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

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.
• 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

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.