The Ebola Virus
The Ebola Virus
Nicolas A. Kotsonis
U.S. Army
The Ebola Virus
Abstract
This paper will explore the five main topics of the Ebola virus and the four other virus in the same genome. The five topics explored are the background, transmission, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment and control. Also, I will cover and explain some of the major outbreak locations death toll and survival rate. EVD is well know for its deadliness but in this paper I will try to portray the truest survival average based on allocated knowledge found in research papers and media coverage. The biggest part of the Ebola virus's lethality is the lack of initial water intake from the damaged party, which in Africa causes the highest lethality due to its lack of available fresh water.
Keywords: EVD- Ebola Virus Disease, IT- Infected Toll, DT- Death Toll, DP- Death percentage, WHO- World Health Organization, CDC- Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Ebola Virus
The background for the Ebola virus is that as an illness it causes a severely deadly, acute disease of the host. It causes most deaths within 2 to 21 days of initial contraction of the EBOV strain which is the most common one. The strains of the virus are EBOV ; Ebola ebolavirus; which is the main strain of the ebolavirus genome others are SEBOV ; Sudan ebolavirus; REBOV ; Reston ebolavirus; CIEBOV ; Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus; and Bundibugyo ebolavirus which has no abrieviated name due to its brief exsistance. The ebolavirus strains are most prominent in the contries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia because of the lack of health systems, infrastructor and recourses.
The transmission of the ebolavirus strains is the biggest reason that its lethality is so high for example.
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