lant without killing it. Once a virus kills its host, it dies too. Therefore, there must be a host that the virus infects but does not kill. Once experts discover Ebola's natural host, they can teach people, how to avoid it. (Bib2, Ebola Virus Outbreak Spreads in Zaire, 245)
Zoologist Chistophe Boesch, of the Swiss Institute of Zoology, and his team have been studying the chimps since 1979. The team performed an autopsy on one chimp that had died of the strange illness and discovered that it had suffered from a hemorrhagic fever. Eight days later, one of the scientists who helped with the autopsy became sick. She survived, but her blood samples shoed that she had been infected with Ebola. (Bib2, Ebola Virus Outbreak Spreads in Zaire, 245)
But, what is to blame in the outbreaks of these horrible diseases? Experts believe that the Ebola epidemic in Zaire happened in part because hospitals there lack common medical supplies, such as surgical gloves, masks, new hypodermic syringes to inject medicines, and clean water. Ill equipped doctors and nurses becam
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