EbolaBy: Alex Baer & Gabby Hofmeister

Ebola is a virus that a filovirus(threadlike virus in family of filoviridae, only 2 types Ebola and Magburg) named after a river in Zaire, its first site of discovery. It affects monkeys, apes and humans.

There are 4 types of Ebola: Ebola Zaire(1976), Ebola Sudan(1976), Ebola Reston(1989) and Ebola Cote D’ivoire(1994)

Ebola Sudan is mildest that kills up to 50% of its victims and Ebola Zaire kills up to 90%

Ebola has existed since 1976 You know you have ebola when you are bleeding

for no reason

What is Ebola?

High fever Fatigue Headache Diarrhea Stomach Pain

5 Symptoms of Ebola:

Spread by direct contact with bodily fluid. Bodily fluids include: blood, vomit, mucus,

diarrhea, or semen. Humans are most likely to get it.

How is it Spread?

What does it look like?

National Academy of Sciences at The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases discovered that antibodies in tobacco plants grown in Kentucky have been given to lab monkeys infected with Ebola and it kept all the monkeys alive according to the new study

Current Research

Outbreak in Western Uganda in July-August 2012.

14 deaths out of 20 cases

Current Event:

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 Walsh, Bryan. "Urban Ebola: Why the Latest Outbreak in Uganda Raises Worries." Time. Time, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.

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