This report has been written to inform the readers of the potentially hazardous disease Ebola, and how it is contracted and some background information on the discovery of Ebola.
The Ebola virus is a member of a family of RNA Viruses, known as Filvoviruses. The Ebola Virus does not occur often as the last reported Ebola Infection was on November 24 1995, by a Swiss researcher on the Ivory Coast.
The Ebola Virus is very infectious. Ebola viruses are spread through close personal contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. Usually the wide spread action of the virus takes place among hospital care workers or family members who were aiding and infected person. Ebola can spread by the use of unsterile me
Only a very few victims, one out of ten people infected, will survive the viruses deadly operations. Due to its self-limiting nature, the Ebola Virus is known to sometimes die out within a person before killing the host organ or organism. Just like the history of wars and other social epidemics, the Ebola outbreaks need to be remembered and learned from.
The Ebola virus cannot be completely wiped out, but a few steps to help prevent the disease can be used:
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