Ebola
...he regions are under financed. Sexual activity also has an effect on transferring the virus. Victims that carry the disease begin to have sudden fevers, weakness, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, intensive vomiting, diarrhea, rashes, limited kidney and liver functions and, both internal and external bleeding. Death occurs from 50-90%, symptoms begin two to twenty-one days after the infection. Handling Ebola is a major biohazard; at all times protective gear is required to decrease the risk of encountering the virus. Ebola is transferred through blood, but tests have also shown it is able to infect by breathing air it has contaminated. Past experiences with Ebola occurred in 1976 in Zaire and western Sudan. Large outbreaks resulted to more than 550 cases and 340 deaths’s another outbreak in 1979 in Sudan with thirty-four cases and twenty-two deaths. Each outbreak was caused by the mistaken use of needles and syringes being re-used without any sterilization. In 1996 a cargo of monkeys were shipped in from the Philippines, they were then sent to an institute in Virginia. Monkeys quit eating, and slowly died in their cages. The virus had spread throughout the cages, infecting one by one. The monkeys were all killed; the rooms were sterilized and so were the carcasses. They were placed in several layers of bags and placed in a freezer chamber to kill any kind of leftover diseases. The Hot Zone deals with dangerous matters such as Ebola, Mayinga, and Marburg. These viruses exist and at any moment the entire human race could be wiped out from existence. The significance of this subject plays a vital role in o...