While Ebola virus disease (EVD) is notorious for being one of the world’s most deadly infections, it actually has a wide range of outcomes, where asymptomatic presentation may be as common as fatality. Now, researchers have developed a new scale, described in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, which can help predict which patients are most at risk of dying from EVD.
In past epidemics, EVD has had a fatality rate of more than 80%, although the mortality rate was closer to 50% in the 2013-2015 outbreak.
