Ebola_Virus

Ebola Virus Ebola Virus The Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River in Zaire, is a highly contagious virus. Ebola is one of the most frightening viruses to come out of the African continent. It spread through villages and killed many people. These people had respiratory problems, loss of appetite, and severe hemorrhaging after infection. Its fatality rate is from 50 to 90 percent. History of Ebola The Ebola virus was first documented in Zimbabwe, South Africa and in Kenya in 1976. Two major outbreaks occurred almost simultaneously in Zaire and Sudan. Over 500 cases were reported, with a mortality rate of 88% in Zaire and 53% in Sudan. A single case was confirmed by virus isolation in Zaire in 1977 and 1979. Ebola hemorrhagic fever occurred again in Sudan at the same site as in 1976. Besides these episodes, documented by virus isolation, two more fatal and two nonfatal cases have been reported. A third filovirus, serologically related to Ebola virus was isolated from cynomolgus monkeys ( Macaca fascicularis ) which originated in the Philippines. A Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever outbreak in July 1962 had a 50% mortality rate. It is not yet proven if this was an Ebola strain or a separate ebola, virus, infected, zaire, rate, outbreak, people, patients, individual, fever, blood, sudan, strain, spread, percent, occurred, identified, hemorrhagic, fluids, first, days, after, two, treatment, needles, monkeys, isolation, death, cases, body, been, 1976, through, tests, symptoms, swiss, severe, resulted, pain, outbreaks, mortality, lungs, infection, forest, disease, died, bleeding, antibodies, workers, vomiting