Ebola Infection Paper

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Ebola has been going around in the media for quite some time now. People are wondering if they should fear it or if the U.S has it under control. This disease is not a new disease, it's just been getting spread more now and is getting spread rapidly. Ebola has been out there for about 40 years in small places, it is a deadly disease and there are also plenty symptoms to this infection called Ebola.
Ebola is spreading more and more every day and more people are dying because of this disease. Over the time this infection has been spreading rapidly and it's all up to the human body to cure this non curable disease. In December 2013 there had been only 4 cases of Ebola and only 3 deaths, by October 2014 there had already been 13,703 cases and …show more content…

In 2013 most people didn't know nothing about Ebola and didn't even know this disease existed. This infection was first identified in 1976 but did little harm that they did not make a cure for it. This disease can be spread through having contact with another persons blood, saliva, and sweat (Brooks). There are also some information that shows that a person who did not have Ebola did use a blanket from someone who did have Ebola and got the disease just like that (Altman). "Ebola is a virus, or infection, It gets its name from the Ebola River, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the disease was first reported, in 1976" (What Is Ebola?). Ebola started in west Africa and is now a global crisis. Some say that this disease was originated from fruit bats and these animals can spread this disease and not have it at the same time …show more content…

Ebola destroys the body and that's bad enough and it's even worse that they don't have no cure for this illness. First the symptoms start by having headaches and also the throat starts hurting while the muscles and joints hurt so it makes the person feel weak (Wilmore). Then after a while the person starts vomiting and having very bad diarrhea while having bad stomach pains (Wilmore). Then the skin randomly starts getting bruises (Wilmore). Many times when having Ebola a person dosen't just bleed from the nose but also start bleeding from the eyes. (Wilmore). Finally many of the deaths from Ebola, Ebola started getting to your organs which made them fail to work and it resulted to death (Wilmore). "This may seem like science fiction, but the disease is real. Its name is Ebola (ee-BOH-luh), and although it has appeared only in Africa so far, it has been spreading dread around the world." (Wilmore). With this disease starting like any other illness a person would just think that it's a little fever but then will worsen by the time, and when they actually try to cure it, it will be to

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