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Ebolavirus Hemorrhagic Fever and the Obstetric Patient

Halit Pınar, Robert L. Goldenberg

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To the Editor, Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) constitute the family Filoviridae that are enveloped, nonsegmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses of varying morphology. They are markedly contagious and fatal in close to 90% of cases in Africa. Although all of the past outbreaks of EBOV have been in West Africa, affecting Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, and most outbreaks of MARV have been in Africa as well, due to ease of travel of individuals over long distances and other factors, in the United States and Western Europe we have started to see cases of Ebola

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To the Editor, Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) constitute the family Filoviridae that are enveloped, nonsegmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses of varying morphology. They are markedly contagious and fatal in close to 90% of cases in Africa. Although all of the past outbreaks of EBOV have been in West Africa, affecting Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, and most outbreaks of MARV have been in Africa as well, due to ease of travel of individuals over long distances and other factors, in the United States and Western Europe we have started to see cases of Ebola

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To the Editor, Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) constitute the family Filoviridae that are enveloped, nonsegmented, negative-stranded RNA viruses of varying morphology. They are markedly contagious and fatal in close to 90% of cases in Africa. Although all of the past outbreaks of EBOV have been in West Africa, affecting Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, and most outbreaks of MARV have been in Africa as well, due to ease of travel of individuals over long distances and other factors, in the United States and Western Europe we have started to see cases of Ebola

Key concepts: Sierra leone, Filoviridae, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Ebolavirus, Outbreak, Virology, Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

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