Question

Can i get detailed information about EBOLA disease ?

Answer 1

• Ebola is a rare but quite deadly a virus, that is a causative factor behind internal and external bleeding.
• The main cause behind this is the fact that the virus, damages the immune system as it progresses, and causes the level of the blood clotting cells to drop. This as a result can leads to uncontrollable bleeding.
• The disease caused by the Ebola virus is known as the Ebola Haemorrhagic Fever and it has a death rate of up to 90%.
• First diagnosed in the year 1976, the Ebola Virus primarily affects, Central and Western parts of Africa, much near the tropical rain forests.
• The virus is first transmitted to humans through wild animals, and then leads to a human to human transmission.
• The fruit bats belonging the Pteropodidae family are known to be the natural hosts of the virus.
• In the human population Ebola is transmitted through coming in comtact with the bodily fluids, blood, secretions etc. of infected animals and humans.
• Coming in contact with indirect environmental contaminants too can be a cause of transmission, and mostly is seen amongst undiaagonosed people and also health care workers who take care of patients suffering from EVD.
• Ebola virus belongs to the genus Filoviridae, and comprises of five distinct species namely Bundibugyo, Zaire, Reston, Sudan and Tai Forest Ebolavirus.
• there is no specific vaccine that has been designed for the virus currently, and seeing the mass outbreak in West African sub-continent, researches have begun to develop a cure/vaccine for the deadly disease, which will hopefully be out in the market by the year 2015.