Guidelines for treatment of patients with Ebola Virus Diseases are urgently needed

摘要

The Ebola Virus Diseases, EVD, epidemic is still unfolding in West Africa with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia most severely affected. This week it was estimated that there is at least 500 new cases every week and the total number of cases has passed 16,000, but there is probably a substantial underreporting of both cases and fatalities.1 There are some doubts about the mortality rate, but one recent case series reported a mortality of 72%.2