What is Ebola??!


Question: Irish: You're thinking of E. coli...
Ebola is a virus. It is known as a hemmorrhagic fever. It's a REALLY scary disease. Basically, you get infected with this virus, 2 days after it enters your body, you start running a high fever (this is a very short incubation period, most pathogens take at least a week to incubate). During this time, your internal organs basically liquify and you bleed from every opening in your body... eyes, nose, ears, mouth, anus. Then you die. Unless you happen to be in the lucky 5% of people who actually survive. It is transmissible through contact, like touching the patients body fluids, then touching your mouth, nose or eyes or getting sprayed with the projectile vomitting that occurs. It was discovered in 1974 (I think) in the Congo (formerly Zaire) near the Ebola river valley, mostly in isolated villages. There have been several subsequent outbreaks since then, including one in the US. In 1989, 4 researchers in Maryland came down with the disease. Luckily, the outbreak was controlled. In 2000, new strains of Ebola were found... (some think manufactured, and they're probably right). These new strains are airborne, and transmitted like the flu.... There is no cure for any strain of ebola.
hope you can sleep tonight.


Answers: Irish: You're thinking of E. coli...
Ebola is a virus. It is known as a hemmorrhagic fever. It's a REALLY scary disease. Basically, you get infected with this virus, 2 days after it enters your body, you start running a high fever (this is a very short incubation period, most pathogens take at least a week to incubate). During this time, your internal organs basically liquify and you bleed from every opening in your body... eyes, nose, ears, mouth, anus. Then you die. Unless you happen to be in the lucky 5% of people who actually survive. It is transmissible through contact, like touching the patients body fluids, then touching your mouth, nose or eyes or getting sprayed with the projectile vomitting that occurs. It was discovered in 1974 (I think) in the Congo (formerly Zaire) near the Ebola river valley, mostly in isolated villages. There have been several subsequent outbreaks since then, including one in the US. In 1989, 4 researchers in Maryland came down with the disease. Luckily, the outbreak was controlled. In 2000, new strains of Ebola were found... (some think manufactured, and they're probably right). These new strains are airborne, and transmitted like the flu.... There is no cure for any strain of ebola.
hope you can sleep tonight.

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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola

    A virus..it's pretty bad..

    Bacteria. Gets in your system from uncooked ground beef and needs to be treated ASAP

    A) ur not at all mixing it up with ecoli!
    B) ebola is an Auto immune disorder(aids).

    Its a realy dangerous virus. there was a major outbreak in the 1980's throughout africa.

    There's a great nonfiction book about ebola its called the hot zone

    Hope this answers ur question!





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