FratFiles

• Save Paper

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......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 499
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Ebola Virus
   

   Ebola Virus The Ebola Virus The Ebola Virus is an extremely deadly virus found in Africa. There have been multiple outbreaks across Africa and one in the United States. The Ebola

2. The Ebola Virus
   

   The Ebola Virus The Ebola Virus History of, Occurrences, and Effects of Ebola, a virus which acquires its name from the Ebola River (located in Zaire, Africa), first emerged in

3. The Ebola Virus
   

   The Ebola Virus The Ebola Virus A virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having no independent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of another host

4. The Ebola Virus
   

   The Ebola Virus The Ebola Virus INTRODUCTION The most deadly killers on this earth are too small to see with the naked eye. These microscopic predators are viruses. In my report,

5. Ebola Virus
   

   Ebola Virus 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.