and primates. It starts out with common symptoms that turn lethal in a matter of days.

Outbreaks are fairly rare, but when they do occur, the eppidemic is devistating and leaves

The Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, commonly known as Ebola, is one of the most

devistating diseases in the world. It is uncurable, and there is no vaccine to prevent it.

Allthough little is known about the disease, there have been several recent breakthroughs

in understanding how the virus attacks. It works in two ways, one by crippling the bodies

front line immune systems, then attacking the bodies blood vessels and using the cells that

line the veins as its host to create more of the virus. This attack on the blood vessels leave

them weakend which in turn leads to the massive hemoraging that is the cause of death in

ebola victims. The Ebola virus is an RNA virus contained in the family known as

filoviruses. Under an electron microscope, they have the appearance of being long

Ebola is a great mystery to the scientists t

outbreak left 245 dead and at least 44 more died in Gabon.

People in the United States are at no risk of contracting the virus providing they

France, and South Africa collaborated to investigate and control the outbreak. This

testing stage after it succeded in fighting off the virus in guinea pigs. Until there is a cure

unsuccesful in determining the nutural reservoir. Using the evidence collected from past

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