Ebola Disease and its Outbreaks

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Subject Area:Biology

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There are a total of five species found in the Filoviridae virus while some of this viruses are lethal than the other species. Ebola virus is widely known to be associated with the fruit bat which initially was not popular among human beings; the Ebola virus was then introduced to human beings through a close contact with the infected birds (Shrivastava et al 2015). It was initially known as Ebola the Ebola hemorrhagic fever which was the strongest and the most deadly virus among the filoviridae viruses. There are five major classes of Ebola. From the five classes, four subtypes of Ebola are the ones that course diseases in human beings. When a person is identified to have any type of Ebola virus they are advised to stay in an isolated room away from other others and even in hospitals physicians can look for a special care unit for the Ebola patients until they recover fully (Rainisch et al 2015).

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Ebola disease is indeed a deadly disease which if it's not treated or recognized at its early stages it might cause a lot of damage to the crowd. Caregivers are under a high risk of contracting this disease when attending to the patients because they might come into contact with the blood, vomit or even other fluids which the patients can discharge some even out of the knowledge of the patients (Trajano et al 2016). When the caregiver accidentally comes into contact with these fluids there are high possibilities of also being a victim of Ebola that is the reason as to why the caregivers are usually experienced specialist who is so much cautious of the disease and can handle it with a lot of care.

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