Ebola The Deadliest Disease By Hayden Myers "In the four known African ebola epidemics, the fatality

rate was close to 90 percent, making ebola appear more formidable than any other infectious agent ever encountered. The disease would strike suddenly, with fever and malaise, like a bad case of the flu. Pain in the chest and abdomen, skin rash, diarrhea, and severe prostration would soon follow. Those few destined to survive would begin a slow recovery after one week of agonizing pain. The majority would lapse into coma and hemorrhage throughout their bodies, convulsive seizures bringing death." -Leo Galland, Power Healing: Use the New Integrated Medicine to Cure Yourself This quote explains in short the horror of ebola a disease that is a true lose lose situation. Ebola found in africa this virus is the deadliest known to man kind. This disease is not curable and is untreatable they can only give you life support and watch you slowly die. In order to come up with a cure however we need to know Where ebola comes from, Its affects on the body, and current research for a cure. A national geographic article titled Ebola in uganda why can we cure it states The virus is still so mysterious that no one knows how it originated, in which species it epidemics, Ebola's starting points are a mystery to us but we have a few ideas these are. Fruit bats according to the same article Some scientists have suggested that bats are Ebola's natural reservoirs, and there is some evidence to support this theory. For example, when researchers have injected bats with the Ebola virus in experiments, the bats have survived. Assuming this is correct avoiding contact with fruit bats may prove fruitful. There is another widely believed theory that monkeys spread ebola as its natural hosts but this is not true. The fact is ebola also kills primates making monkeys a poor natural host. Natural host need to be unaffected by the virus so that it can continue to evolve using healthy cells. The affects of ebola on the body our something right out of a horror novel. Symptoms appear suddenly 2-21 days of being affected. Once infected the average life span of the afflicted is about 2 weeks. Those two weeks are spent in utter agony experiencing these symptoms according to a 1999 stanford article that listed E bola's symptoms and frequency Fever (90%-100%) (2) 2)Headache (40%-90%) (2) 3)Chills (3) 4)Myalgia/arthralgia (40%-80%) (2) 5)Malaise (75%-85%) (2) 6)Pharyngitis (20%-40%) (2) 7)Loss of appetite (3) 8)Vomiting (59%) (1) 9)Hematemesis (10%-40%) (2) 10) Non-bloody diarrhea (81%) (1) 11) Blood fails to clot (71%-78%) (1) 12) Abdominal pain (60-80%) (2) 13) Dry and sore throat (63%) (1) 14) Chest pain (83% of EBO-S infected patients; uncommon in EBO-Z infected patients) (1) 15) Hemorrhagic diathesis (71%-78%) (1) 16) Maculopapular rash (5%-20%) (2) 17) Hiccups (15 %) (1) 18) Hepatic damage 1)

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Renal failure CNS involvement (infrequently) (1) Terminal shock Lymphopenia Severe thrombocytopenia Transaminase elevation 25) Hyperamylasemia

From the same article a more descriptive account of a few symptoms "It's a fairly straightforward flulike illness, which starts off with severe headache and severe watery diarrhea. It's then followed by a rash, a very, very sore throat--which feels like someone's rubbing a rope up and down inside and that is then followed by severe bleeding which can come from external orifices such as the nose, gums, the rectum and also from the uterus. But there is also severe bleeding into the gastrointestinal organs as well, with severe damage to the kidneys, liver and also the spleen This disease has four strains two of which ore the most common ebola zaire has a 90% fatality rate and Ebola Sudan neither can be cured. Survival of the disease does not mean your life will return to normal ebola will change your life forever with problems such as 1) Loss of memory 2)Central nervous system disorders 3) Loss of hair Ebola is no doubt a terrible disease and the tragedy of the situation is we have no cure as such all we can do is try to help the only things we can do according to http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola/isthere-a-cure-for-ebola.html are 1) 2)Good nursing care 3)Oxygen and devices that help with breathing 4)Intravenous (IV) fluids to maintain fluids and electrolytes 5)Medications to control fever, help the blood clot, and maintain blood pressure 6) Antibiotics to prevent secondary infections. There is hope though a recent outbreak in Uganda will have energized the scientific community to work harder to find a cure. Ebola is thankfully not a threat to most of the world: it is not transmitted through the air it is only transmitted by bodily fluids.We must still be careful however as an ABC article says It is not impossible" that an Ebola outbreak could occur in North America, says Ann Marie Kimball, an epidemiologist with the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, Seattle While for now only in Africa we should be ready in case it ever does spread that is why it is important for us to be educated on Where ebola comes from, what it does, and what can be done for a cure.

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