摘要：Ebola virus disease (EVD) was firstly identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in Sudan in 1976, about nine years after the identification of the hem- orrhagic fever due to the Marburg virus, another member of the Filoviridae family. Since most patients affected by Ebola do not develop frank hemorrhages, the formerly known term "Ebola hemorrhagic fever" has been replaced by "EVD", to raise clinical suspicion and facilitate early rec- ognition of the disease in absence of hemorrhagic symp- toms.
