Research progress Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever vaccine

Yunpeng Wang, Yuchen Zhang

Abstract


Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a potent infectious disease by Ebola virus caused 90% mortality rate. Ebola virus was first isolated in 1976 by, for single-stranded negative segment, non-segmented, enveloped RNA viruses belonging to filamentous virus family. Ebola virus can be divided into five different subtypes. Vaccination is the most conventional and effective prevention and infection control methods in recent years. It has made great progress in the study on the vaccine for Ebola virus. In this paper, research progress Ebola hemorrhagic fever vaccine was reviewed.


Keywords


Ebola virus; Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Vaccine

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