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Ebola's Deadly Spread

EBOLA'S DEADLY SPREAD West Africa is experiencing its first Ebola outbreak in two decades, and the deadliest since the first recorded outbreak of the severe viral haemorrhagic fever in 1976 in which 280 deaths were reported. There is no specific treatment or vaccine for Ebola, and the virus can have a fatality rate of up to 90 percent in some outbreaks. Once thought to be carried by primates, new evidence strongly suggests that Ebola is spread by bats. IRAQ IRAN MOROCCO ALGERIA LIBYA EGYPT SAUDI ARABIA MAURITANIA OMAN MALI NIGER YEMEN CHAD SUDAN dURKINA FASO QUTI RENIN SOMALIA NIGERIA CÔTE D'IVOIRE EENTRAL ETHIOPIA EBOLA STRAINS (GHANA AFRICAN REPUBLIC Zaire CAMEROdN Sudan EQUATORIA KENYA Ivory Coast DEMOCRATIC F REPIBLIC OF RND The Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is the first in West Africa since 1994 when a scientist contracted the disease while working with infected chimpanzees in Côte D'Ivoire. The scientist had the Ivory Coast strain and eventually recovered. Bundibugyo BURUNDI TANZANIA NO. OF CASES 500 250 ANGOLA 100 50 10 ZAMBIA MSCAMBIAUE НАBITATS EBOLA CASES BY YEAR ZIMBABWE Fruit bat territory NAMIBIA MADAGASCAR 602 PBOTSWANA *Estimated cases as of June 18 SOUTH AFRICA 425 413 362 315 There were no recorded Ebola outbreaks between 1980-1993, Scientists believe the reemergence of the virus is due to an increase in gorilla and chimpanzee mortality, increased hunting of fruit bats, and the virus' mutation into new strains - Ivory Coast (1994) and Bundibugyo (2007). 143 122 99 53 34 35 HOW EBOLA IS TRANSMITTED EBOLA IS DEADLY Ebola spreads through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people or animals. In Africa, Ebola outbreaks have been linked to the handling of infected fruit bats, the virus' possible natural host, as well as chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines. There is no human vaccine for Ebola, and some outbreaks can have a fatality rate up to 90 percent. The Zaire strain has the highest and has been linked to the current outbreak in West Africa. AVERAGE FATALITY RATE Fruit bats are the possible natural host of the Ebola virus. 79% 53% Humans contract Zaire strain Sudan strain the virus by close contact with infected animals. 0% 27% The virus spreads human-to-human through close contact with infected individuals. Burial ceremonies and health care tasks pose a great risk. Gorillas and other animals contract the virus by eating Ivory Coast strain Bundibugyo strain infected fruit bats or fruit that the bats have salivated on. *A fifth strain of Ebola was first reported in 1989. The Reston strain has been documented in the United States, Italy, and the Philippines, but has not caused any human deaths. Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, The Guardian, Nature.com THE HUFFINGTON POST 2014 2013 | LLOZ OLOZ 600Z 2008 8 /007 9007 2005 E007 z00z -- -007 | 0007 6661 8661 L661 I 9661 1995 E661 Z66! 1661 0661 6861 1988 1987 986. S861 1984 1983 1982 1981 0861 6L61 1978 1977| - 9161

Ebola's Deadly Spread

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West Africa is experiencing its first Ebola outbreak in two decades, and the deadliest since the first recorded outbreak of the severe viral haemorrhagic fever in 1976 in which 280 deaths were reporte...

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