Ebola virus and other Filoviruses: an overview

Objective: Filoviruses, including Ebola and Marburg viruses, are recognized as a significant warning to public health. It is zoonotic agents whose primary reservoir seems to be bats. These viruses cause severe human infection with hemorrhagic syndrome along with a mortality rate that can as high as 90%. The recent outbreaks of Ebola virus in the west of Africa which has since appeared in Marsh 2014 caused more than 8300 infections with more than 4000 deaths, proved that neither the health systems of countries in the region or international organizations were not prepared for the response to such a threat. Effective fight against this type of threat passes first by a good understanding the epidemiology of the disease and the establishment of effective diagnostic tools that enable the detection of cases to establish the isolation measures. Virus isolation techniques are increasingly replaced by techniques of molecular biology, faster, highly sensitive and specific. There is still no specific treatment or vaccine against Ebola, but studies are underway and the results seem to be trying very promising. Peer reviewer P