CNN Posting : U.S. steps up efforts in Ebola fight



 

Ebola, maybe most of you have heard about the disease. 

 

This is key facts about Ebola virus.

 

Key facts

• Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.
• EVD outbreaks have a case fatality rate of up to 90%.
• EVD outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests.
• The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission.
• Fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family are considered to be the natural host of the Ebola virus.
• Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. No licensed specific treatment or vaccine is available for use in people or animals. 

 Now, the virus have spreaded only in some countries in West Africa, but without effeot to stop the spreading of virus, it will become the pandemic that can kill numerous people in the whole world. First of all, all the countries must help those countries in the West Africa for stopping more spread of the virus. It is the best way to prevent it to spread other part of the world.