... a fatality rate of about 90% in the most common strain, Ebola-Zaire. Three of the four strains of this virus affect humans: Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan and Ebola Cate d'Ivoire. The fourth strain, Ebola-Reston infects humans but does ... in underdeveloped countries. Another means of infection is through the handling of ill or dead chimpanzees that were infected with the virus. The incubation period for this disease is approximately a week after which the infected person suffers from flu like symptoms: ... the disease. Recently Congo received a grant of 500,000 dollars to help finance the ...

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... of the disease will accompany each of us throughout the next decades. Every newspaper and every magazine covers some aspect of AIDS. Sometimes the articles give hope, sometimes they are grim, and all show how everyone can be touched by this disease. Since the epidemic came about in the eighties ... cooperative. If they needed money for research very usually the government gave them money. When AIDS was first discovered the" budget" was too low to give money for the" gay disease" research. It was kind of like the government was being very prejudice against the Gays. The government didn't ...

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