The Ebola Virus
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is one of the most deadly viruses that man kind has
ever seen.
In clinical cases it has a mortality rate of 50%-90%. The Viruses
has many different strains including Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Reston and Sudan,
each named after the location of their first clinical case. They each cause
different sympto ....
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.... several other African
countries since then. The first major outbreak of the ebola virus was in
1976, in Zaire and in Sudan. "Over 500 cases were reported, with mortality
rates of 88% in Zaire and 53% in Sudan"1 The cause of these outbreaks still
remain unknown. No association with monkeys could be attributed to either
of the outbreaks. The only other case besides in Marburg that Ebola seemed
to be associated with monkeys was a filovirus (family of viruses containing
Ebola) isolated from cyno ....
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