Ebola Virus

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of the Zaire string of the Ebola virus was in Zaire, in 1976. The doctors didn't know how to treat it and that meant that
they didn't know how to contain it either. As infected people met in public places the virus spread. In Western Sudan, the same year, the Sudan string
of the Ebola virus emerged with similar results. Both casts together had about a total of 550 infections and around 340 deaths (about 60% death rate).
The virus' then lay dormant till 1979, when Sudan was again hit with 34 infections and 22 deaths. In the outbreak, as before, the fatality rate was about
60% (Mussillami, www.lfc.edu)
In 1987 a new string of the Ebola virus was discovered. It was called the Reston string. This string of Ebola is air borne (it is able to pass from one
host to another through the air) and was a mutation of the Zaire string. A group of infected monkeys had been sent to Reston, Virginia. The monkeys
were being shipped from the Philippines. Of the 149 workers came in ...

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