Ebola Virus
The Ebola (pronounced ee-BO-luh) virus is the common name for a severe, often-fatal bleeding or hemorrhagic (pronounced hem-or-RAD-jik) fever that first appeared in 1976. It is caused by a new kind of virus called a filovirus (pronounced FY-low-vye-russ) that kills most of its victims with frightening speed. The source of the virus is unknown and there is no cure.
A deadly disease
As a viral hemorrhagic fever, the Ebola virus infects its host and causes sudden fever, muscle aches, and weakness followed by vomiting, diarrhea, breathing and kidney problems, shock, internal and external...
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