or anything else about ebola you know
2006-11-25 09:26:09 · 5 answers · asked by leio c 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
The blood is affected by it. It causes the blood to not clot as it should and the sufferer bleeds to death through multiple sites, not a nice disease at all.
Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.
The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in Africa, where it was first recognized. The virus is one of two members of a family of RNA viruses called the Filoviridae. There are four identified subtypes of Ebola virus. Three of the four have caused disease in humans: Ebola-Zaire, Ebola-Sudan, and Ebola-Ivory Coast. The fourth, Ebola-Reston, has caused disease in nonhuman primates, but not in humans....;
2006-11-25 09:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Filovirus, See: http://www.virology.net/Big_Virology/BVHomePage.html A Prior Entry Says it Effects the Clotting Cascade, I don't Think it Does. BTW, "Ebola reston" Might Form the Basis of a Vaccine.
2006-11-25 12:00:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The immune system.
2006-11-25 09:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by Judith 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
2006-11-25 09:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by May 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blood,it breaks down your platelets and you bleed out,from all over,your body is almost liquifying.
2006-11-25 12:19:47 · answer #5 · answered by joeniceguy2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋