Ebola Virus Disease(EVD)

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) also known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever(EHF) is one of the viral hemorrhagic fevers which affects a person’s blood system
It is a severe, often fatal illness in humans and non-human primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees)
It is caused by infection with a virus which is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population.
EVD is fatal up to 90% of the cases who are infected.
EVD outbreaks(sudden occurrence of disease) are known to occur primarily in villages of  Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
The largest outbreak is the ongoing 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak, which has affected Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. As of August 2014, more than 1,750 cases have been suspected.
Severely infected patients require intensive supportive care. No specific treatment or vaccine is available for this disease

History

EVD was first originated in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The disease typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of Sub Saharan Africa. Fewer than 1000 people have been infected every year from 1976 till 2013. Ebola virus was first found in 1976 during the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Zaire and Sudan. The name of the disease originates from one of those first recorded outbreaks in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire), which situated on the Ebola River.