ebola

where does ebola come from

fruit bats, carrying the disease without being ill, who pass it to other animals, who humans then consume and get sick from

hiv came from a monkey

swine flu came from pigs

when did ebola first appear

in 1976, nnamed after the first small river it appeared in

how does ebola travel

through bodily fluids

what was the biggest fear with ebola

was that it would mutate and become airborne

what does ebola present itself as originally

malaria

nancy writebold

contracted ebola, was a missionary to help those in liberia who were infected with the disease

zmapp

tested on monkies, was used to find a cure for ebola

what is a common source o9f ebolas spread

funerals

you can inject

infected with antibodies from an uninfected person’s blood and it will seem to respond

kent brantly

also contracted ebola and lived

how was ebola first found

in a tree that was burning down that killed the infected fruit bats

spillover

when a virus transfers fromm animals to humans

endothelical cells

damage the host cells, result in bleeding

ebola characteristicsw

unusual variable length, branched morphology, rna virus, enveloped virus

glycoprotein, polymerase complex protein, senomic RNA

ebola budding

attachment (gp proteins bind to human cell proteins), virus enters cell by endocytosis, ebola does biosynthesis, assembly then budding