Out of nowhere you start to feel different. You become overwhelmingly hot, develop a strong headache, and your joints and muscles begin to experience an excruciating pain. You start vomiting, have diarrhea and stomach pain. A bitter taste encompasses your senses as blood starts leaking from your orifices. Little do you know that small blood clots are beginning to form in your bloodstream, thickening and slowing the flow of oxygen to the rest of your body. As a result, red spots begin to form all over your skin. Your body starts losing blood rapidly, and little do you realize you are slowly dying. You might have this idea that this disease is something that can easily be treated, and you will be able to get a vaccine. The truth is that no hospital can cure you, and death is almost imminent. The Ebola virus causes severe viral haemorrhagic fever outbreaks in humans. Ebola is not a well-known virus in America, and experts have not yet found a proven cure so far. This disease is a threat to anyone who comes into contact with it and in order for everyone to be safe, it is important to understand how it can be controlled.
Before the disease can be controlled, one must first recognize what it is and how it is transmitted. "The Ebola virus is comprised of five different species: Bundibugyo, Ivory Coast, Reston, Sudan, and Zaire" (WHO 9). Bundibugyo, Sudan, and Zaire are linked with Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever, otherwise known as EHF, while Reston has caused disease in only animals and not humans. The remote villages in Central and West Africa, near rainforests are where most of these occur. Any animal infected with this disease can transmit it if a human comes in contact with the animal's blood, organs or other bodily fluids. Once a human contracts the disease, he or she can spread it in a similar way. The health care workers who treat the infected patients are more susceptible to contracting this disease.