Is there a way out for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa?

Angelo Andreas; Christian Binoun A Egom; Peter Kruzliak; Emmanuel E Egom

doi:10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.09.001

Is there a way out for the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Western Africa?

Asian Pac J Trop Med. 2015 Oct;8(10):773-8. doi: 10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.09.001. Epub 2015 Sep 25.

Authors

Angelo Andreas¹, Christian Binoun A Egom², Peter Kruzliak³, Emmanuel E Egom⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Toronto, Canada.
² University of Ndjamena, Faculty of Medicine, Ndjamena, Chad.
³ International Clinical Research Center, St. Anne's University Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: peter.kruzliak@savba.sk.
⁴ Egom Clinical and Translational Research Services, Halifax, NS, Canada. Electronic address: egom@ectrs.ca.

PMID: 26522290
DOI: 10.1016/j.apjtm.2015.09.001

Abstract

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, primarily affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, has exceeded all previous Ebola outbreaks in the number of cases and in international response. Although infections only occur frequently in Western Africa, the virus has the potential to spread globally and is classified as a category A pathogen that could be misused as a bioterrorism agent. This review aims (i) to discuss the latest data to aid our current recommendations for the prevention and control of the Ebola virus infection, (ii) to review its pathophysiology as well as offering insights on the most current data available about Ebola vaccine progress and potential use.

Keywords: Control; Ebola virus; Infection; Prevention.

Publication types

Review