Crystal structures of human TIM members: Ebola virus entry-enhancing receptors
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 07:05
in Health & Medicine
Since first identified in 1976, Ebola virus has caused a total of 24 outbreaks involving 1,716 cases according to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics. The current outbreak in West Africa, with the first case identified in March 2014, is the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak. It includes more than 28,000 infection cases and over 11,000 deaths as of December 2015. The WHO's emergency committee unanimously agreed that the current outbreak—centered in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—was "an extraordinary event and a public health risk to other states", and declared the outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern".