Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (7th grade report)

Ebola is a severe and often fatal disease in humans, and non-human primates, such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees.



Scientists don't know exactly where the virus was first originated. However they do believe that the virus is zoonotic, or animal born. They believe an animal host that is native to the African continent maintains it. A similar host would be monkeys associated with Ebola-Reston.

Cases of Ebola Virus have been found in Congo, Gabon, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Uganda, and Zaire. In Liberia an individual with evidence of an infection but showing no apparent illness has been reported, and in England a lab worker became ill, but it was just the result of an accidental needle stick.

Because the origin of the virus is unknown, researchers cannot determine the order in which the virus appears in a human at the start of an outbreak. However researchers have determined that the first individual infected with the......

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