Mrs. Robinson
Ebola
11 December 2014
Making Sense of the Ebola Virus:
The Ebola virus struck the world infecting 6,263 and killing nearly 2,917 men, women, and
children in five Western African countries. The Ebola virus has a very high risk of death. The
virus causes fever, muscle aches, sore throat, headaches, vomitting, diarrhea, a body rash,
and unexplained bleeding from internal organs. Signs of the virus may appear between 2 to 21
days of actually retrieving the virus. The virus has mostly been showing up in Liberia, Guinea,
Sierra Leone, Senegal, and Nigeria. All of these places are located in West Africa. Though, this
virus scares many, it's only obtainable through bodily fluids of another human being.
This means the only way of getting the …show more content…
The CDC is an organization that works to stop the spread of viruses
so the virus is not able to disease more people. The virus was brought by contaminated animal's
rotten flesh/carcass ( bats, monkeys, antelopes, etc. ) that were touched by another human
being. The USA is thankfully not at risk of this virus due to the fact that the only way you can get
this virus is by coming into contact with the contaminated being's bodily fluids, which should not
be too much of a problem. The reason the virus is so much out of control is because well
in America we have secure quarantines so if someone were to get Ebola here they would
be quarantined immediately and would not become a danger to anyone else, but in West Africa
they do not seem to have such proper medical care, which means if someone were to get Ebola
there would be no where to put them, they would be still be out there in the world and would
endanger everyone near them, and this unfortunately is what happened. WHO and CDC are
working on quarantining everyone who has the virus which will stop the