• Severe fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates
             • Named after a river in Democratic Republic of Congo
             • One of the two members of the RNA viruses called the Filoviridae
             • First three subgroups are known to cause disease in humans:
             • Only subgroup to cause disease just in nonhuman primates:
             • Exact origin, location, and natural habitat is unknown
             • Originate in an animal host from Africa
             • Mainly primates which carry it
             • Ebola is usually spread within a health-care setting
             • Cases of Ebola reported in: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Uganda, and the Republic of the Congo.
             • Infections with Ebola virus are severe
             • No carrier state where the virus is located
             • First patient becomes infected by contact with infected animal
             • After the first person receives the virus, people can be exposed:
              from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person.
              from contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions
             - sore throat - stomach pain
             • After initial symptoms, hemorrhagic rash appears over entire body
             • Patient bleeds from mouth and rectum
             – immune systems failure to produce antibodies
             • Diagnosing Ebola is very difficult
             • Many symptoms can occur in other diseases
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