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The Ebola Virus - Online Term Paper

The Ebola Virus

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 symptoms and different mortality rates. Non the less, the
collection of Ebola viruses at the present, pose a serious health threat
to people in undeveloped countries and potentially in developed ones as
well.

The first documented clinical case of the Ebola virus was in 1967.
Marburg, a strain of the virus was seen in laboratory workers in Marburg,
Germany. The workers had been exposed to tissue and ...

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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 cynomolgus monkeys from the Philippines. This Virus
caused no serious symptoms in humans. Scattered outbreaks of Ebola have
been reported in Central Africa for several years.

The Ebola virus is a member a family of RNA viruses known as
filoviruses. Ebola is a negative stranded RNA virus. The virus partial has
the shape of a long stand with loops on the end, like worms. There are
variations on this shape, depending on the specific virus. Each virus in
the filovirus family contain a nucleocapsid consisting of a dark central
space surrounded by a helical capsid, the outer protein coat of a cell. A
channel exists in the nucleocapsid. This is where the Nucleic acid (DNA) is
stored. "The viral partical is ...

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Added: 8/8/2007 08:22:36 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 1005
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