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
Ebola’s cause has not been found, but there are a couple of things that can infect you. A major cause in the small villages of Africa is eating infected monkey meat. Another is the unsanitary conditions of the hospitals in Africa.
ctims. 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 being a virus that strictly attacks monkeys. 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 dormant for almost 20 years, but then in 1995 it showed its ugly face again- this time in Kikwit, Africa. (This o
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