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How it came in existence?
Ebola is a viral fever that is extremely sever and in most of the case a fatal illness. The disease was first spread in the year 1976, in the places like Sudan and Zaire.It has affected about 284 people in its first outbreak. This led to a mortality rate of around 53%. The second outbreak effected around 318 people with the highest mortality rate of about 88% in the regions of Yambuku and Zaire.  This viral affect was named and Ebola-Zaire (EBOZ). The expertise researchers worked hard to find out the cause of such a severe disease but were unable to find out the actual cause behind the virus. In the year 1989, the Ebola Reston (EBOR) was first identified. This was the third strain of the disease. It was found in the Ebola affected monkey imported in Reston.
Facts on Ebola:
A per the report of World Health Organization (WHO), the death due to the infection of Ebola is around 4493 and the suspected victims of the disease has exceeded 8998. But WHO still has the assumption that it may be 2.5 times the number that has been reported. It has been detected as the highest outbreak of any disease found so far. Generally the virus resides in the fruit bats. The mostly affected people with Ebola are those who leave around the tropical rainforest. The germs are spread through infected animals like chimpanzee, fruit bats, and antelope by coming in close contact with blood, secretion, sweat, or any fluid of the victim.
When a person is affected with Ebola then first symptoms felt is high fever followed by muscle pain and sore throat. Later it increases its effect very fast with vomiting, diarrhoea, bleeding internal or external, finally reaching out to death. This spreads so rapidly that the health care workers had to have serious protection and they usually cover up the whole body heavily.
Research has found out that mostly the people suffering from poverty are the victims of this disease. They do not have proper hygiene and medication. Thus they are devoid of resisting the spread of this disease. The hospitals too do not provide proper treatment to them and most are understaffed for this disease. Thus places like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are badly affected by Ebola virus. The positive aspect of Ebola germ is that it cannot persist in high temperature and are easily fragile. Thus it can be destroyed by alcohol gel or even soapy water. It can even be killed by drying it out or using disinfectants.
People who are diagnosed properly in the early stage of Ebola fever can survive. Though there has 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.

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