Question

Is Ebola a virus?

Answer 1

Ebola:

1. Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by ebolaviruses in humans and other primates.
2. Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with the blood or other bodily fluids (such as vomit, diarrhea, urine, breast milk, perspiration, and sperm) of an infected person who has Ebola symptoms or has just died from Ebola.
3. People and nonhuman primates are the most typically affected by EVD (such as monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees).
4. Symptoms usually appear between two and three weeks after being infected with the virus.
5. Ebola is an uncommon but lethal virus that causes fever, body pains, diarrhea, and occasionally internal and external bleeding.
6. The virus destroys the immune system and organs as it travels throughout the body.
7. It eventually causes a decrease in the number of blood-clotting cells.
8. This causes intense and uncontrollable bleeding.
9. A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only within an organism's live cells.
10. Zaire ebolavirus is the causative agent of the disease.
11. The term "causative Agent" refers to any virus, bacteria, fungus, parasitic agent, or microbe that is directly or indirectly responsible for the disease in question.
12. Viruses and viroids are examples of mesobiotic agents.
13. Viroids are infectious pathogens that are tiny single-stranded circular RNAs.
14. Mesobiotic agents are infectious agents.