The assay included recombinant
Ebola virus proteins glycoprotein, nucleoprotein, or viral protein 40 for different lineages: Zaire, Sudan, Bundibugyo, and Reston.
Persistence and genetic stability of
Ebola virus during the outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1995.
Investigators at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases compared in vitro and in vivo approaches to the inactivation of
Ebola virus specimens before removal from high-level biocontainment, to evaluate the efficacy of methods of chemical inactivation.
Incubation period of
Ebola virus is 2 to 21 days, to onset of symptoms.
Also, I'd like to point out that the article's comment that pregnant patients are triaged "last" during the current
Ebola virus outbreak may not be completely accurate.
The
Ebola virus disease, previously known as the Ebola hemorrhagic fever, is a severe illness in humans, often fatal, according to the WHO.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever or simply Ebola is an unusual but typically fatal disease caused by infection with one of the
Ebola virus strains [1] and has the potential to cause illness in humans as well as nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
(USN), has announced that its arsenal of disinfectant formulas are in accordance with CDC guidelines and can be used to disinfect surfaces with suspected or confirmed
Ebola virus infection.
Ebola virus disease is not something which has appeared for the first time (almost twenty such outbreaks have already been reported starting from 1976), (4) and thus associating a known enemy with deaths of thousands of people (including doctors, nursing staff, outreach workers, laboratory personnel, etc.) is somewhat difficult to digest.