Place/Region the disease is most prevalent : "The Ebola virus is most prevalent in Africa , even though it has shown up in the United States, Africa and West Africa is most at risk with getting the disease ".
Link: http://www.vox.com/2014/8/6/5971675/where-ebola-outbreak-will-go-next-africa
There is no treatment for the disease, although researchers are trying to find one. "The FDA has not approved of a vaccine or medicine that will treat the Ebola virus". Link: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/treatment/
Interesting Facts about the Ebola Virus : 1 . "The first human outbreaks occurred in 1976, one in northern Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Central Africa: and the other, in southern Sudan (now South Sudan). The virus is named after the Ebola River, where the virus was first recognized in 1976,according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2. Typically, symptoms appear 8-10 days after exposure to the virus, but the incubation period can span two to 21 days". Link: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html?s_cid=cs_3923
2 . Because the natural reservoir host of Ebola viruses has not yet been identified, the way in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak is unknown. However, scientists believe that the first patient becomes infected through contact with an infected animal, such as a fruit bat or primate (apes and monkeys), which is called a spillover event. Person-to-person transmission follows and can lead to large numbers of affected people. In some past Ebola outbreaks, primates were also affected by Ebola, and multiple spillover events occurred when people touched or ate infected primates." Link ; http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html?s_cid=cs_3923
Scientific Name: "Ebola virus (EBOV, formerly designated Zaire ebolavirus) is one of five known viruses within the genus Ebolavirus"
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Event in History: On February 27, 2001, Uganda was declared officially to be free of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following a 42-day period, twice the maximum incubation period, during which no new cases had been reported. Between October 2000 and February 2001, CDC participated with the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ugandan Ministry of Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and other partners in an international response to the outbreak.
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