DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i04.003

Pages: 1624-1632

Ebola has become a major medical concern in the last few years in Africa and the year 2014 was called Ebola epidemic year. Even till now, physicians and researchers are not able to find out the effective treatment of this epidemic. Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a rare and fatal disease which is also caused by one of the species of Ebola virus. It is supposed to be fruit bats are the most likely reservoir of the various species of this virus. Ebola virus has five different species out of which four occur in the native African animal host (fruit bats) that is why first outbreak of this lethal virus occurred in the following countries of Africa: Demographic republic of Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, south Sudan, Uganda, Republic of Congo and South Africa. Diagnosis of Ebola virus is difficult because early symptoms such as high grade fever only which is often seen in patients of malaria and typhoid fever. Researchers are doing their best to find out the specific treatment of the diseases caused by Ebola and putting best effort in developing the FDA (Food and Drug administration) approved vaccine. The motive of present case study on Ebola virus is to provide essential information about the virus and entire epidemic from the beginning outbreak year of Ebola (1976) to till now which might be supposed to be proved useful theoretical medical database to minimize the maximum possibility of lethal effects caused by virus.