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Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses. [1] Symptoms typically start anywhere between two days and three weeks after infection. [3] The first symptoms are usually fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. [1]
RESTV was again introduced into a quarantine facility in Texas by monkeys imported from the same facility in the Philippines that was the source of the 1989 and 1990 U.S. outbreaks. No human cases resulted. [88] 1996 Philippines: RESTV 0 0 RESTV was identified at a monkey export facility in the Philippines. No human cases resulted. [89] 1996 Russia
The situation was investigated. [28] Eventually six workers were found to test sero-positive for antibodies to Reston ebolavirus. None developed any noticeable symptoms of illness. [29] 2015 Manila, Philippines – On 6 September the department of health reported an outbreak of the Reston Ebola virus in a research breeding facility under primates.
Orthoebolavirus zairense [1] or Zaire ebolavirus, more commonly known as Ebola virus (/ i ˈ b oʊ l ə, ɪ-/; EBOV), is one of six known species within the genus Ebolavirus. [2] 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).
10 [249] 2007 Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Mexico dengue fever epidemic 2007 Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico Dengue fever: 183 [250] 2007 Uganda Ebola outbreak 2007 Uganda: Ebola: 37 [237] 2007 Netherlands Q-fever epidemic 2007–2018 Netherlands Q-fever: 95 [251] 2008 Brazil dengue epidemic 2008 Brazil Dengue fever: 67 [252]
Phylogenetic tree comparing ebolaviruses and marburgviruses. Numbers indicate percent confidence of branches. The genus Ebolavirus (/ i ˈ b oʊ l ə / - or / ə ˈ b oʊ l ə ˌ v aɪ r ə s /; ee-BOH-lə- or ə-BOH-lə-VY-rəs) [1] [2] [3] is a virological taxon included in the family Filoviridae (filament-shaped viruses), order Mononegavirales. [3]
Pianka's acceptance speech [14] for the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist Award from the Texas Academy of Science [15] resulted in a controversy in the popular press when Forrest Mims, vice-chair of the Academy's section on environmental science, claimed that Pianka had "enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola."
On 28 August 2014, authorities in Guinea issued an alert that a person who had been in close contact with an Ebola-infected patient had escaped their surveillance system. The alert prompted testing for Ebola at the Dakar laboratory, and the positive result launched an investigation, triggering urgent contact tracing. [ 179 ]