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That is a "relative" question, and depends on who you ask. Depends on how you want to die. Things to consider are: Is it bacterial and possibly treatable with an antibiotic? Is it resistant to antibiotics? Is it a virus? Is it GENETICALLY engineered? The deadliest GERM is going to be a virus. There is no cure for them except that you survive the illness. It has to be nearly 100% Lethal, killing all who have caught it.

That puts EBOLA Virus at the top of the list. It is a gruesome, slow, painful way to die. You basically dissolve from the inside out, and bleed from every orifice in the body. There is no cure, and people have not survived with treatment of the symptoms. It has wiped out entire villages with hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF).

Marburg virus, was discovered after an outbreak in Marburg, Germany, in 1967 at a lab. This virus' recognition led to the creation of this virus family. The five species of Ebola virus are the only other known members of the filovirus family. So, there are TWO main types of the virus, and Ebola has 5 subtypes under it, for a total of 6, deadly hemorrhagic fever viruses.

The Ebola recognized outbreaks have been confined to Africa. Outside of Africa, the disease has, so far, been confined to research primates. The strains of Ebola are named by the area of the breakouts.

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