Ebola

            The Ebola virus, though extremely deadly, is misunderstood. Yes, Ebola is deadly but it is not as easy to catch as the general public thinks. Ebola was first identified in Sudan and Zaire in 1976. As of now we have no cure for the Ebola virus. This paper will focus on the transmission, symptoms, structure, and possible therapy for Ebola.
             Ebola is transmitted by bodily fluids and not by air. The incubation of this virus can range from two days to twenty-two days. Unlike in the movie Out Break Ebola does not spread through air. You must be in close contact and have shared or been exposed to the infected persons bodily fluids. In Zaire, Ebola was spread by the use of used syringes. The virus does not only affect humans but also affects monkeys and rodents. Infection has also been traced back to the handling of infected chimpanzees such the case in Cote d"lvoire and Gabon. A case of Ebola that has researchers puzzled is the infection of two Eastern Kenyan individuals that had been in the same bat infested cave and both came down with the virus. Studies of the bats found no evidence of the virus in the bats. Another outbreak in Sudan was traced back to bats in a cotton factory. .
             The symptoms of Ebola are very close to those of the flu, sudden fever, muscle pain, headache, and sore throat. You than experience unpleasant and painful vomiting, diarrhea, rash, kidney failure, and internal and external bleeding that can lead to death. From what we have studied kidney failure causes your blood to remain filled with deadly toxins.
             Ebola is a complicated but interesting virus in the way that it invades your body's cells. To have any idea of how the Ebola virus penetrates the body one must first look at the structure of the virus. Ebola has a single-stranded molecule of negative sense RNA that is not infected. It is made up of seven polypeptides a nucleoprotein, a glycoprotein, a polymerase, and four other undesignated proteins.