International Journal of Infection, 2015 Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is an acute hemorrhagic infectious disease caused by Ebola virus (EBOV). Human is infected via contacts to body fluid, secretions, and discharges from patients or infected animals. Its clinical manifestations include fever, bleeding, and multiple organ lesions. It has a high mortality rate, which is up to 50–90 %.
Ailin Cheng, Yanyan Zhang, Hongjun Li
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Emergence of deadly viral haemorrhagic fever disease outbreaks in West Africa
Virulence, 2023 Recent viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) disease outbreaks caused by Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) in West Africa are unique and alarming.
Widaliz Vega-Rodriguez, Hinh Ly
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Ebolavirosis: a 2014 Review for Clinicians
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2014 Ebolavirosis, like Marburgvirosis, are African zoonosis, and for both the primary animal reservoir are bats. It is a typical acute haemorrhagic fever, characterized by a high lethality rate.
Jaime Nina
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On the mathematical analysis of Ebola hemorrhagic fever: deathly infection disease in West African countries. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2014 Atangana A, Goufo EF.
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Evaluating the use of cell phone messaging for community Ebola syndromic surveillance in high risked settings in Southern Sierra [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Most underdeveloped countries do not meet core disease outbreak surveillance because of the lack of human resources, laboratory and infrastructural facilities.
Jia, K, Mohamed, K
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Seizures and epilepsy after intracerebral hemorrhage: an update [PDF]
Journal of Neurology, 2021, 268 (7), pp.2605-2615, 2022 Seizures are common after intracerebral hemorrhage, occurring in 6 to 15% of the patients, mostly in the first 72 hours. Their incidence reaches 30% when subclinical or non-convulsive seizures are diagnosed by continuous electroencephalogram. Several risk factors for seizures have been described including cortical location of intracerebral hemorrhage ...
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A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. [PDF]
, 2015 The unprecedented scale of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has, as of 29 April 2015, resulted in more than 10,884 deaths among 26,277 cases. Prior to the ongoing outbreak, Ebola virus disease (EVD) caused relatively small outbreaks (maximum outbreak ...
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Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2022 The economy and health of the world’s population have been recurrently affected by infectious diseases since records began in the early 1900s, including large epidemic events that involved diseases such as the ‘Spanish influenza’, West Nile fever, Ebola ...
Vittorio Colizzi +11 more
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Clinical Manifestations and Case Management of Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever caused by a newly identified virus strain, Bundibugyo, Uganda, 2007-2008 [PDF]
, 2012 A confirmed Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) outbreak in Bundibugyo, Uganda, November 2007-February 2008, was caused by a putative new species (Bundibugyo ebolavirus). It included 93 putative cases, 56 laboratory-confirmed cases, and 37 deaths (CFR = 25%).
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Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever in Africa: a Necessary Highlight [PDF]
, 2019 The purpose of this commentary is to re-evaluate the historic and scientific facts on Ebola haemorrhagic fever and the role of the International community, especially Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in stemming the tide.
Adu-Gyamfi, S. (Samuel)
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