A review on the Ebola virus,outbreak history and the current research tools to control the disease

作     者：Cesar Marcial Escobedo-Bonilla 

作者机构：Blvd.Juan de Dios Batiz Paredes 250Colonia San JoachinGuasave Sinaloa.Post Code 81101.Mexico 

出 版 物：《Journal of Coastal Life Medicine》 (海岸生命医学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第1期

页      面：1-17页

学科分类：1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100401[医学-流行病与卫生统计学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Ebola virus Hemorrhagic fever disease Zoonotic diseases Disease outbreaks Control methods Antiviral therapeutics 

摘      要：The Ebola virus is a zoonotic pathogen causing hemorrhagic fever disease with a high mortality *** distribution of this pathogen has been limited to woodlands from Central and West Africa and the forest-savannah ecotone in East *** likely reservoir species are frugivorous bats living in these *** pathogen is becoming an increasing threat to human populations since its distribution range is expanding faster than *** current Ebola outbreaks in Western Africa and in the Democratic Republic of Congo have rapidly spread infecting high numbers of individuals in five African *** disease has reached the United States and *** expansion is due partly to increasing global *** situation represents a new challenge to control the spread of the *** drugs have been used to treat a few infected people with promising *** gives hope for an effective treatment against Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the near future,though thousands of people remain at risk of *** present review aims to give an update of the knowledge on the disease,including features of the Ebola virus,the history of disease outbreaks in Africa and the tools that are being developed in order to control this re-emergent disease.