Ebola 3
Ebola-Pronunciation: E-'bO-l&, i-, e-
Etymology: Ebola River, Zaire, site of an outbreak of the virus in 1976
: An RNA-containing virus of African origin that causes an often fatal Hemorrhagic fever -- called also Ebola.
Zaire, 1976
A strange virus kills 340 of Zaire's natives. This virus has never been seen by man, so there is no cure. Three out of four people die, and the fourth person, who lives, will suffer severely. This virus is believed to come from the Ebola River in Zaire. The virus' name is Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, also known as Ebola for short. Ebola is a member of RNA virus' known as filoviruses. Filoviruses are enveloped, single stranded, negative-sense of RNA viruses. Ebola ...
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external bleeding, you bleed from every opening on your body, blood fails to clot, so if you get cut in any way your body will never stop bleeding from that wound. Ebola could spread and infect everyone in the world in 48 hours.
Marburg, Germany
In this small German town people were taking tests on African monkeys. These monkeys were infected with the infamous Ebola virus. What's horrifying about Ebola is that the virus can change easily, as it did with this newest strand, Marburg. Now, the original Ebola is known as Ebola-Zaire. Marburg is not as bad of a virus as Ebola-Zaire is, the fatality rate is 1 out of 4 people, while Ebola-Zaire's is 3 out of 4. Marburg is not spread through the air, like Ebola-Zaire is; Marburg is spread through sexual intercourse. Marburg mainly focuses on the lower half of a person's body. The symptoms of Marburg are worse than Ebola-Zaire, but not as many people die from Marburg. Let's hope we never see any other Ebola virus, ever.
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