Emergence of the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa

Dervisevic, Samir (2016) Emergence of the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. In: Examining the Role of Environmental Change on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics. IGI Global, pp. 163-177. ISBN 9781522505532

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Abstract

This chapter gives an overview on the recent outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa which has lasted for over seventeen months. The Ebola virus has been implicated as a causative agent of viral haemorrhagic fever occurring in Central Africa over the last thirty-nine years. However, the Ebola virus has not previously been recognised as an endemic virus causing outbreaks of viral illness in West Africa. The start of what was to become the largest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in known history was first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 23rd of March 2014 and since then it has transformed into an unprecedented and severe epidemic affecting the three countries of West Africa (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone). The emergence of this lethal virus in a setting of profound poverty, a dysfunctional public-health and a weak government infrastructure alarmed the wider world and caused dread from an uncontrollable spread.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2016 01:02
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 23:54
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60394
DOI:	10.4018/978-1-5225-0553-2.ch007

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