The Ebola virus is a deadly virus in the
filovirus family. The filovirus family consists of
Ebola Zaire, the most virulent of the Ebola
viruses, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and Marburg.
The Ebola Zaire virus has a 90% kill rate but has
not been proved to be airborn. Ebola Zaire broke
out in 1976 and killed around 500 people acourding
to most sources. Ebola Sudan is less vurlent but
still kills almost 70% of all it's victims over 50%
more then yellow fever which is considered to be
very deadly. Ebola Reston never infected any human
beings only monkeys. It broke out in a monkey house
in Reston Virgina. Marburg is the least virulent in
the filorvirus family killing a mear 50% of it's
victims. It first broke out in 50 in Marburg
Germany. Ebola Reston is the only strain of Ebola
that has been proven to transmit through the air
and it's been the only Ebola not fatal to humans
only monkeys.
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Ebola virus disease
None - This image is in the public domain and thus...All the other known strains of Ebola
are transmitted by direct contact. The first
outbreak of Ebola was in 1976 in Zaire Africa. The
next was in Sudan Africa in 1979. Then Ebola
remained hidden for almost 20 years, but then in
1995 it showed it's ugly face again. Ebola had
broken out again in Kikwit Africa. This outbreak
kill around 200 people.
There is no vacine for Ebola yet but there was
a treatement for it that was discovered during this
recent outbreak. They gave some Ebola infected
patients a total blood transfusion from people that
survived Ebola. The patients that got the
transfusion lived because once someone catches
Ebola they supposedly can't catch it again. Because
there is no vacine or cure Ebola is a level four
virus meaning that it must be worked...