{"id":15521,"date":"2020-09-16T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:17:07","slug":"what-is-ebola-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-ebola-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ebola Disease? Behind The Deadly Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What is Ebola disease? How did Ebola start<\/a>, and why were there Ebola outbreaks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer to the question “what is Ebola disease?” is complex. Ebola disease is a highly deadly virus known as a hemorrhagic fever virus, as it causes clotting problems, internal bleeding, inflammation, and tissue damage. It is spread through bodily fluids, and does not discriminate between humans and animals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is Ebola disease? Read more about Ebola and its origins below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What Is Ebola Disease?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So what is Ebola disease, and where does it come from? Viruses hide among all living things\u2014some are harmless, and some have the potential to wipe out huge swaths of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ebola virus\u2019s sister virus, Marburg, first appeared in the 1960s. Marburg and Ebola have only emerged a handful of times since, but most of the victims and communities hit with Marburg or Ebola have been devastated by the viruses\u2019 brutal physical attacks, high infectiveness, and astronomical kill rates.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll discuss the known outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg, as well as the potential for future outbreaks. But first, let\u2019s talk about what the virus is and does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Filovirus Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What is Ebola disease and is it related to other viruses? Ebola belongs to a family of viruses named filoviruses, meaning \u201cthread viruses,\u201d because they look like threads or ropes under a microscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are four viruses in the filovirus family<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Marburg, the mildest strain, with a kill rate of 1 in 4<\/li>
  2. Ebola Sudan<\/a>, with a kill rate of about 1 in 2<\/li>
  3. Ebola Zaire<\/a>, the deadliest strain, with a kill rate of 9 in 10 <\/li>
  4. Ebola Reston<\/a>, the most recently discovered strain, which we\u2019ll get to later <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    (Shortform note: Since the book\u2019s publication, three more filoviruses have been identified, all of which are strains of Ebola: Bundibugyo, Ta\u00ef Forest, and Bombali.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Viruses are parasites. They lie dormant until they can latch onto another cell, at which point they use the cell\u2019s materials to replicate ceaselessly, until the cell either bursts or is exhausted and destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Ebola virus targets its host\u2019s immune system, preventing the host\u2019s body from fighting off the disease. But viruses need a living host to survive, so when a victim dies, the virus must jump hosts. Ebola is transmitted through exposure to the blood or bodily fluids of an infected victim or corpse.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With the exception of Ebola Reston, filoviruses don\u2019t appear to discriminate between people and animals, and they can jump easily from one to the other.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Still, the question of “what is Ebola disease” is complicated. Scientists still don\u2019t know what the filoviruses\u2019 hosts are\u2014whether insects or animals\u2014but the viruses can be transmitted to primates or duikers, a type of antelope. Nor do scientists know where the hosts live, but most cases originated in the region around Mount Elgon, on the border of Kenya and Uganda, not far from Sudan. Specifically, a few cases trace back to Kitum Cave<\/a>, on the eastern slope of Mount Elgon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (Shortform note: Scientists still don\u2019t know the hosts of filoviruses, but evidence points to fruit- and insect-eating bats as major carriers<\/a>\u2014though that doesn\u2019t rule out the possibility that an insect or rat is the original host and simply infected the bats through a bite. Scientists also suspect there could be multiple hosts.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (Shortform note: Since the book\u2019s publication in 1995, there have been Ebola outbreaks every few years, the majority of which have been Ebola Zaire. Most have been fairly small (less than 100 cases) and centered in Western Africa, but one was a far outlier: From 2013-2016, Ebola Zaire spread across 10 countries, infecting more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So what is Ebola disease? That is a question scientists are still trying to answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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