cteria and help the body defend against disease.
Massive destruction of the liver is a hallmark feature of Ebola virus infection. This virus
does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to do. It also requires biosaftey level four
containment, the highest and most dangerous level. HIV the virus that causes AIDS
requires only a biosaftey level of two. In reported outbreaks, 50%-90% of cases have
Ebola can be spread in a number of ways, and replication of the virus occurs at an
alarming rate. Ebola replication in infected cells takes about eight hours. Hundreds to
thousands of new virus particles are then released during periods of a few hours to a few
days, before the cells die. The several cycles of replication occur in a primate before the
onset of the fever and other clinical manifestations (Ornstein, Matthews and Johnson 7).
In most outbreaks, transmission from patient to patient within hospitals has been
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