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摘要

Since the beginning of 2014, Ebola virus disease has claimed more than 4,500 lives, making it the largest epidemic of the virus in history.1 The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that more than 9,000 total individuals in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other West African countries have been infected with Ebola, which kills roughly half of its victims.1 The first two recorded outbreaks of the disease occurred simultaneously in 1976 in Sudan and in a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo near the Ebola River, after which the virus is named.2