Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever

Ebola is an extremely contagious filovirus. Ebola is usually fatal hemorrhagic fever and spread through contact with bodily fluids of infected persons and by airborne particles.

The Ebola outbreak is affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

No, ebola has never hit Kenya.

It is not known to have been in Europe at that time.

Yes, Ebola first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo happened in a village near the Ebola River.

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The number have been rather low. The problem is that with each new outbreak, the numbers are larger and larger. The death rate of untreated people is close to 95%.

As far as the public knows, Ariana Grande has not contracted the Ebola virus.

As far as the public knows, Kanye West does not have Ebola.

Ebola is not an acronym (it's named after a river), so you shouldn't capitalize the whole thing.

That said, it's really hard to answer the question.

AIDS was first recognized in 1981, though the HIV virus itself has been around for longer than that (it probably mutated from a non-human variant sometime around in the late 19th or early 20th century), and the earliest well-documented case (though the term AIDS wasn't used yet) was in 1959.

The first identified outbreak of Ebola virus disease was in 1976, but the general Ebolavirus family has been around for millions of years; there's evidence of filovirus in fossils dating back at least that far.

In the United States a citizen is significantly less likely to catch Ebola than the average-run-of -the-mill Flu. While only 2 individuals have died of Ebola in 2014, over 30,000 individuals in this country have died from complications related to the common Flu.

No, ebola is not airborne. It is spread through bodily fluids.

The largest outbreak to date is the ongoing 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which is affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.

Only in special labs.

No.

Edgar Allan Poe

There is no medical evidence that supports the conjecture that Poe died of rabies.

The Ebola virus is transmitted through bodily fluids. It is also suspected that the virus can enter the human body through contact with the whites of the eyes or the mouth.

Under laboratory conditions, Ebola has also been transmitted through the air, but this does not happen in nature.

Well, strictly speaking, Ebola is a deadly hemorragic fever, often called " death of a million cuts" because of the rare tendency of victims to bleed from all orifices, even skin pores. So, in a medical knowledge, I'd consider Ebola virus one of the deadliest viruses on the planet.

Every so often, Ebola s. breaks out, often killing off the local population in extremely rural areas and, lacking more hosts, dies out itself. The question has always been, "where is Ebola carried when it's not breaking out?" Clearly, it either is carried in a non-symptomatic vector between outbreaks, or it would be extinct. And clearly it's not extinct. At the time of this writing (September, 2008), the vector or reservoir for Ebola is not known. The direction we're looking at this time is at the Africa Fruit Bat, but we're doubting our own guess in that the bat may also suffer from this disease as well. Another guess is that it reserves in some long-lived arthropod, but that guess is based only on the facts that it seems to live a long time between outbreaks, so it may hide in an organism sufficiently different taxonomically to not infect from the disease. In short - no.

It depends. Ebola virus Is a highly infectious disease. It is spread not only by the living, but also by the dead. Funeral ceremonies can be a source of exposure of the virus to a large gathering of people. In countries where cadavers of people who died of Ebola are not handled aseptically, the disease can spread very quickly. One method of limiting the spread of the disease is to cremate those who died of the disease. Ebola virus can wipe out a city of 200,000 in two months.