Ebola haemorrhagic fever

Fact sheet N°103 - August 2012

Key facts
--The Ebola virus causes severe viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) outbreaks in humans.
--Viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.
--Ebola haemorrhagic fever outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
--The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission(...)

Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found dead or ill in the rainforest(...)

Among workers in contact with monkeys or pigs infected with Ebola Reston, several human infections have been documented ...

Source: Ebola haemorrhagic fever
Author: WHO

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