Reston ebolavirus

Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease that has been infecting thousands of people in the West Africa for years and recently America. Ebola was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan. Researchers believe the disease is animal borne and that bats are mostly the original reservoir. There are 5 different types of Ebola; Ebola virus, Sudan virus, Tai forest virus, bundibugyo virus, and Reston virus. The Reston virus is the only strain of Ebola that only causes disease in non-human primates but not humans. Humans can contract the virus by coming in contact with bodily fluids like blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, and/or semen from infected person or infected animal. Recently America has been dealing with an Ebola outbreak with 6 different cases and 1 death. The…

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a non-fiction novel about the origin of Ebola and its effects on people and the outbreak of Ebola in a monkey house. Preston also goes into details about the symptoms of Ebola and the different strains of Ebola,which are Ebola Zaire, Ebola Reston, and Ebola Sudan. Preston really informs about the dangers of Ebola and what it can do to the human body and what must be done to prevent the virus from spreading around the world and causing an…

Three years after the outbreak in Reston, Richard Preston, the author of this book, travels to Kitum Cave to inspect it for himself. He does not break out with Ebola, nor does he find anything that would transfer Ebola. It leaves us with the question of whether Kitum Cave is dormant, and if one day, Ebola will revive, and a massive outbreak previously unknown will occur. I believe that C.J. Peters should win the Nobel Prize, not just because of his work with Ebola, but his work with other…

Ebola is a hemorrhagic fever which is a deadly disease caused by one of five known distinguishable subtypes of Ebola. Ebola is a filoviridae which is the only known virus family that we lack knowledge on. Researchers fail to understand how nature maintains itself with viruses like these and researchers know even less about the resulting diseases, pathogens, and the detailed virology (the study of viruses) of Ebola. Of the five strains four are known to cause disease in humans: Ebola virus (Zaire…

Ebola Virus What is Ebola? Ebola is previously known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, which is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. It is caused by the family Filoviridae genus Ebolavirus. Ebola can cause disease in not only humans but nonhuman primates which includes monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Ebola was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River, which is…

The Ebola virus disease (EVD) was first identified in 1976 during two simultaneous outbreaks, one in Sudan and the other in Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then there have been 24 outbreaks involving 28,635 reported cases and 11,314 deaths according to the World Health Organization (REFERENCE). EVD is an example of an “emerging/ re-emerging” pathogen, due to its divergent genomes and sporadic outbreaks causing severe hemorrhaging fever in humans and non-human primates. The family…

Ebola was first discovered in 1976 in two African countries- Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo had a river named the Ebola River. The Ebola virus was later named after that river where in a nearby village had an outbreak of the disease. The Ebola virus is also known as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Genus Ebolavirus has five distinct species which include Bundibugyo Ebolavirus, Zaire Ebolavirus, Reston Ebolavirus, Sudan Ebolavirus, and Tai Forest Ebolavirus (WHO |…

Ebola River, located near a village where it was first mentioned. The outbreaks have been in, “Nzara, South Sudan, and other in Yambuku, Democratic Republic of Cargo” (WHO 1). One of the major outbreaks was located in West Africa in March 2014. From 2014 through 2016 in multiple countries, 11,3258 people died of Ebola and there were 28,625 cases of Ebola that year according to the World Health Organization, which is also known as WHO. The disease attacked weak health systems like, “Guinea,…

Ebola virus disease EVD or “Ebola” is a severe human and non-human primate disease caused by Ebola viruses. These viruses belongs to the family: Filoviridae, Genus: Ebolavirus, Species: Tai forest ebolavirus (TAFV), Reston ebolavirus (RESTV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Bundibugy ebolavirus (BOBV) (Bukreyev et al., 2014). Zaire ebolavirus or simply Ebola virus (EBOV) is the most virulent of the genus and accounts for the highest numbers of outbreaks. The virus spreads by…

On August 8, the WHO Director-General proclaimed this episode a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. A different, random Ebola episode started in Boende, Equateur, a confined piece of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The infection family Filoviridae incorporates 3 genera: Cuevavirus, Marburgvirus, and Ebolavirus. There are 5 species that have been distinguished: Zaire, Bundibugyo, Sudan, Reston and Taï Forest. The initial 3, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Sudan…