ebola virus in relation to the movie outbreak
The Ebola virus is a deadly virus in the filovirus family. The filovirus family consists of Ebola Zaire, the most dangerous of the Ebola viruses, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, and Marburg. The Ebola Zaire virus has a 90% kill rate but has not yet been proven to be airborne. Ebola Zaire broke out in 1976 and killed around 500 people according to most sources. Ebola Sudan is less brutal 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 doesn’t aplly to humans- only monkeys. It originally broke out in a monkey warehouse type (like the animal place in Outbreak) in Reston Virgina- hence the Ebola Reston. Marburg is the least powerful in the filorvirus family killing a mere 50% of it’s vi
There are a couple major agencies that handle any outbreaks or treatment they include: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention located in Atlanta (the place where they went in Outbreak in their space suits), World Health Organization, and USAMRIID, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease. No one knows exactly when Ebola will break out next, and no one knows where Ebola is hiding- maybe in an animal near you. The reason that there has been no cure or human vaccine found for Ebola mainly is because it’s similar to the flu and AIDS -every time it breaks out there’s a mutation again so even with a vaccine it might only work for one outbreak. Ebola’s cause has not been found, but there are a couple of things that can infect yo
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