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The Ebola Virus
The Ebola virus is one of the most deadly viruses that man kind has
In clinical cases it has a mortality rate of 50%-90%. The Viruses
has many different strains including Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Reston and Sudan,
each named after the location of their first clinical case. They each cause
different symptoms and differen ....
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Middle of Paper
.... Scattered outbreaks of Ebola have
been reported in Central Africa for several years.
The Ebola virus is a member a family of RNA viruses known as
filoviruses. Ebola is a negative stranded RNA virus. The virus partial has
the shape of a long stand with loops on the end, like worms. There are
variations on this shape, depending on the specific virus. Each virus in
the filovirus family contain a nucleocapsid consisting of a dark central
space surrounded by a helical capsid, the outer protein coat of a cell. A
channel exists in the nucleocapsid. This is w ....
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