Ebola Virus. Ebola virus disease is a serious viral infection that originated in sub-Saharan Africa. Ebola virus disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever first appeared in 1976 with two concurrent outbreaks of acute viral hemorrhagic fever involving 284 cases 151 deaths 53 centred in Nzara Sudan and 318 cases 280 deaths 88 in Yambuku near the Ebola River Democratic Republic of Congo Since these original cases there have been approximately 20 other.
Ebola infectious disease caused by a virus of the family Filoviridae that is responsible for a severe and often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever. Four of the six known ebolaviruses including EBOV cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals known as Ebola virus disease EVD. In humans ebolaviruses cause fatality in 25 to 90 percent of cases.
Ebola Virus Disease EVD is a rare and deadly disease most commonly affecting people and nonhuman primates monkeys gorillas and chimpanzees.
It is caused by an infection with one of five known Ebola virus species four of which can cause disease in people. Ebola Virus Disease EVD is a rare and deadly disease in people and nonhuman primates. About 11310 people died in what was the largest outbreak of. No one has caught Ebola from someone else in the UK.
