Summary
The ebolaviruses (EBOV, SUDV, BDBV) and marburgviruses (MARV and RAVV), cause periodic outbreaks of severe viral hemorrhagic fever with very high mortality rates. The 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa highlighted the serious nature of a filovirus epidemic and its regional and global implications. This outbreak took an enormous toll on people at the front line of the epidemic control, i.e., physicians, nurses, hospital personnel, social workers, and other support staff. Many nurses and physicians lost their lives helping patients and many left their profession out of f
