Ebola Virus

Ebola Virus Ebola virus (EBOV) is considered to be one of the most belligerent contagious agents and has an ability to cause highly fatal hemorrhagic fever syndrome that results in human and non-human primate’s death (NHPs) during the days of exposure. The first notification of the virus was mentioned in the Ebola River valley in Zaire for the time of an outburst in 1976. Moreover, the outbursts have appeared in Africa over the following 27 years, with death rates that differ from 50 to 90%. In Central Africa, for the last three years outbursts have been recognized every year, the most recent of which proceeded in the Republic of the Congo with the amount of victims more than 125, according to the World Health Organization (“Ebola hemorrhagic fever. Information packet”, 2009). The precise derivation, positions, and natural habitats, which are also known as natural reservoirs of Ebola virus, continue to be unidentified. Nevertheless, according to the available substantiation and the features of the same viruses, researchers claim that the virus is zoonotic (animal-borne), with 4 out of 5 subtypes that happen in animal hosts close to Africa. There is no doubt that similar hosts, mostly inhabited in the Republic of Philippines, are connected to the subtype named Ebola-Reston that was quarantined from contaminated cynomolgus monkeys, which were brought to Italy and the US from the Philippines. There is no likelihood that the Ebola exists on other continents such as North America (“Viral hemorrhagic fevers–Ebola and Marburg”, 2009). It has been proven that the Ebola virus can be transferred from one human being to another by means of bodily contact. The common geographic territory considered being mostly influenced by divergent subtypes of the Ebola virus is Central Africa, especially the cities of Zaire, Sudan, and Gabon (Chepurnov, Bakulina, Dadaeva, Ustinova, & Chepurnova, 2009). Characteristically, Ebola virus infection runs its course from 14 to 21

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