Ebola: Essentials, Response Efforts, and Prevention Issues
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| Title: | Ebola: Essentials, Response Efforts, and Prevention Issues |
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| Description: | The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River, near where the virus was discovered in 1976 in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is in the filovirus family, so called because of its filamentous shape. EVD is also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The disease sometimes causes hemorrhage (i.e., bleeding) from body openings, but this symptom is not consistent. Five strains of Ebola virus have been identified. This book discusses the essentials, response efforts, and prevention issues involved with the Ebola virus. |
| Authors: | Cole, Maryann |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Epidemics--History--Popular works, Ebola virus disease |
| Categories: | MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General, MEDICAL / Clinical Medicine, MEDICAL / Diseases, MEDICAL / Internal Medicine |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The Ebola virus is named after the Ebola River, near where the virus was discovered in 1976 in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It is in the filovirus family, so called because of its filamentous shape. EVD is also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever. The disease sometimes causes hemorrhage (i.e., bleeding) from body openings, but this symptom is not consistent. Five strains of Ebola virus have been identified. This book discusses the essentials, response efforts, and prevention issues involved with the Ebola virus. |
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| ISBN: | 9781634822534 9781634822541 |
