Ebola virus disease: a highly fatal infectious disease reemerging in West Africa

摘要

Ebolavirus can cause a highly fatal and panic-generating human disease which may jump from bats to other mammals and human. High viral loads in body fluids allow efficient transmission by contact. Lack of effective antivirals, vaccines and public health infrastructures in parts of Africa make it difficult to health workers to contain the outbreak. (C) 2014 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.