The Ebola epidemic is ongoing in West Africa and responses from China are positive

The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and beyond. On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the cross-country Ebola outbreak a Public Emergency of International Concern. China has had no confirmed cases of Ebola. In this paper, virolo...

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Autores principales: Zhao, Jing-Min, Dong, Shi-Jun, Li, Jin, Ji, Jun-Sheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25914830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0031-8
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description The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and beyond. On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the cross-country Ebola outbreak a Public Emergency of International Concern. China has had no confirmed cases of Ebola. In this paper, virologic characteristics, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory examination and prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic drugs of Ebola are summarized. Importantly, active responses and actions from China are introduced. Moreover, the key issues in the future prevention and control of Ebola were also addressed.
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spelling pubmed-44097632015-04-26 The Ebola epidemic is ongoing in West Africa and responses from China are positive Zhao, Jing-Min Dong, Shi-Jun Li, Jin Ji, Jun-Sheng Mil Med Res Perspective The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and beyond. On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the cross-country Ebola outbreak a Public Emergency of International Concern. China has had no confirmed cases of Ebola. In this paper, virologic characteristics, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory examination and prophylactic vaccines and therapeutic drugs of Ebola are summarized. Importantly, active responses and actions from China are introduced. Moreover, the key issues in the future prevention and control of Ebola were also addressed. BioMed Central 2015-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4409763/ /pubmed/25914830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0031-8 Text en © Zhao et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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The Ebola epidemic is ongoing in West Africa and responses from China are positive
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title_full_unstemmed The Ebola epidemic is ongoing in West Africa and responses from China are positive
title_short The Ebola epidemic is ongoing in West Africa and responses from China are positive
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