The Deadly Ebola Virus.... What is it and how can one catch it?
Date Submitted: 07/17/2001 18:33:38
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 4 pages (1120 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 4 pages (1120 words)
Somewhere in a sweltering jungle, in a deep green thicket that blocks the sun, lives a killer rarely seen, but always present. One that prowled the forests perhaps thousands of years before emerging twenty-one years ago to earn the name Ebola.
The virus was named for the Ebola River, which passes by the village where the virus was first discovered.
"Ebola is a rare but very deadly viral fever first identified in Africa in 1976. Ebola …
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…vaccine for the Ebola virus. Preventive efforts involve educating people about how the virus is transmitted and isolating infected individuals. Ebola seldom gives victims a second chance.
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