general overview, symptoms, description of the pathogen, and how the immune system fights the pathogen

1. Ebola Virus
By: Jacob

2. Effects of Ebola
When you have Ebola you have pain in:
Abdomen
Joints Often Confused
With: Typhoid,
Muscles
Malaria and Lassa fever.

3. Symptoms
When you have Ebola you have:
Chills
Dehydration
Fatigue
Fever
Nausea

4. Treatment
How to treat Ebola
One option is a blood transfusion
The second option is using IV fluids
The third option is oxygen therapy

5. How It Spreads
How Ebola is transmitted

6. Current Amount Of People Affected By
Ebola

7. Where It Is Common
The virus is common in West Africa

8. Discoverer
Peter Piot discovered the virus Ebola
Peter Piot discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 after researching for many years.
In his lab he had to test a container of a sick person's blood for Yellow Fever
and it ended up being Ebola

9. Pictures Of Ebola

10. Timeline Of Ebola Outbreaks

11. Interesting Facts
1. Exposure to any objects contaminated by infected bodily secretions and
fluids can also transmit the disease from person to person.
2. Without proper cleaning and sterilization of medical equipment, Ebola can
spread quickly.
3. Ebola was named after a river in the Republic Of The Congo
4. Ebola is not transmitted through food and water or any other liquids that you
drink

12. Sources
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Dec. 2015.
BBC News. "Ebola: Mapping the Outbreak - BBC News." BBC News. BBC News, 2015. Web. 20 Dec. 2015.
"Centers For Disease Control and Prevention." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 18 Dec. 2015. Web. 18 Dec. 2015.
Theguardian. "Ebola Virus: How It Spreads and What It Does to You – Video." Theguardian. Theguardian, 2015.
Web. 20 Dec. 2015.
The Telegraph. "Briton with Ebola Could Be Flown to UK for Treatment." The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group,
2015. Web. 20 Dec. 2015.
World Health Organization. "The Toll of a Tragedy." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 27 Aug. 2015. Web.
20 Dec. 2015.
World Health Organization. World Health Organization. World Health Organization, 2015. Web. 20 Dec. 2015.