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Ebola Strain:


The transmission of Ebola is quite smooth. It can spread by fluids of the virus carrier like saliva, excretion or blood to the victims’ body. Among the affected Ebola patients most were found to have handled any gorilla or chimpanzee carcass. The incubation period of an Ebola virus is about 21 days and its effects are for about 10days so the victim cannot carry it far. The virus spreads to the victim body very fast so the patient usually does not get time to go through any kind of treatment.
There are around five types of Ebola strains found so far. The first was the EBOV that is Zaire Ebola virus. EBOV was found to have a negative-sense RNA genome. Among the five, the four viruses are most harmful and fatal in nature. Another strain was named as Ebola-Zaire (EBOZ). The Ebola Reston was declared to be the third strain and named as (EBOR). All the strains were discovered in the species of fruit bat, chimpanzees or gorillas. Usually when they come in contact with the human they spread the virus rapidly.
The virus first gets attached to the glycoprotein surface of the victim. The virus penetrated the cells by fusing the vesicle membrane. The cytoplasm releases the nucleocapsid soon after the fusion. Gradually the viral protein level begins to increase thus forming replication.
People who are diagnosed properly in the early stage of Ebola fever can survive. Though there have been no vaccines available till now to prevent this disease. The patients gradually become so week and dehydrated that they are required to have oral rehydrating supplements more often like intravenous fluid or electrolytes. The medication is also rare for Ebola. Still now researches are going on regarding the treatment of such tremendously fatal disease. If the research can find out the treatment then it can save millions of lives.

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