It is over in a matter of days. The victim staggers, disoriented and exhausted, and collapses in a fever. His eyes turn bright red, and he starts vomiting blood. Within a matter of hours, he "crashes" and "bleeds out" surcumming to agonizing death with blood seeping from his eyes, ears and other orifices. At autopsy, pathologists discover, aghast, that the patients internal organs have disintegrated into an indistinguishable mass of bloodied tissue. The killer: A "hot" virus, a highly contagious and deadly microbe that has never been seen before, and has no known cure. (Bib5, CQ Researcher, 495)

In 1976 the first two Ebola outbreaks were recorded. In Zaire and western Sudan five hundred and fifty people reported the horrible disease. Of the five hundred and fifty reported three hundred and fort

Some victims of the Ebola virus, one out of ten people infected, survive the virus's deadly operations. Due to its self-limiting nature, the Ebola virus is known to sometime die out within a person before killing the host organism. (Bib6, Should we be Scared?, 1)

The natural host for the ebola virus is not known, as it is with most other viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. All forms of VHF( viral hemorrhagic fever) begin with fever and muscle aches. Depending on the particular virus, the disease can progress until the patient becomes very ill with respiratory problems, severe bleeding, kidney problems, and shock. The severity of VHF can range from a relatively mild illness to death.(Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia)

Hospital staffs in Zaire will be instructed by the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention about how to limit the spread of the disease and proper ways for containment of the virus. Most important, the CDC will try to find the source of the infection. (Bib3, Ebola, 1)

y innocent people died. Again in 1995 Ebola reportedly broke out in Zaire, this time infecting over two hundred and killing one hundred and sixty. (Bib4, Musilam, 1)

Ebola virus is spread through close personal contact with a person who is very ill with the disease. In previous outbreaks, person-to-person spread frequently occurred among hospital care workers or family members who were caring for an ill person infected with Ebola virus. Transmission of the virus has also occurred as a result of hypodermic needles being reused in the treatment of patients. Reusing needles is a common practice in developing countries, such as Zaire and Sudan, where the health care system is underfinanced. Medical facilities in the United States do not reuse needles.

Most of the time, a virus is as lifeless as a rock, and it may remain so for years. Yet it may come to life at any moment; all it needs is a vulnerable cell to infect. During an infection the virus might well breed a new strain of virus and will proceed to kill 20,000,000 men, women, and children, a record claimed by an influenza virus in 1918.

All mammals can contact Ebola, and spread it to other mammals, insects and reptiles have been found to contract Ebola through extensive testing in the CDC located in Atlanta, Georgia. The main animal that gets the virus seems to be

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