Ebola Virus
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With a ninety percent mortality rate, high mutation capability, and
opportunities for genetic re-assortment Ebola Zaire is one of the most deadly
and unforgiving viruses in the known world. A new family of viruses termed
filoviruses, was first discovered in 1967 Marburg W. Germany. Ebola Zaire wa ....
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.... in Reston, Virginia, and
the Center for Disease Control (CDC), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ebola Zaire if great at what it does, to well. It kills so quickly that
the index case, the first person to start an outbreak is usually dead before the
proper authorities can show up and try to back track where it came from, defying
a decent strategy to keep people away from its natural reservoir. However, it
destroys the body so quickly that it doesn't have a chance to spread very far,
at least in hum ....
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