EBOLA

PREVENTION

• Avoid traveling to areas of known outbreaks.
• Washing hands can greatly reduce risk of infection
• Contact with an infected person will most likely cause infection
• A dead body can still carry Ebola
• Once infected, fatality ensues within 7-16 days in most cases

MICROBE STRUCTURE

• Ebola is a filovirus and has a crystal structure
• There are 5 different strands of ebola

MICROBE FUNCTION

• The function of ebola is to infect a host cell
• The host cell then gets tricked into making more viruses that will infect the whole organism

INFECTION PATHWAY

• Ebola relies on endocytosis to "reproduce" and spread

VICTIMS

• Humans
• Monkeys
• Gorillas
• Chimpanzes

SYMPTOMS

• Fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat,and weakness
• followed by diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.
• A rash, red eyes, hiccups, and internal and external bleeding maybe seen in some patients

TREATMENTS

• There is no known cure
• Patients are sent into intensive hospital care
• They are provided with essential fluids and blood that is lost
• They are also treated for other resulting infections

REFRENCES

• http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolav...