Ebola Virus Disease – Uncommon and Dangerous Illness
Words: 1008 Pages: 3 5266Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is an uncommon and dangerous illness, most commonly affecting humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). It is caused by an infection with five categories of viruses within the genus Ebolavirus: Taï Forest virus (species Taï Forest ebolavirus, formerly Côte d'Ivoire ebolavirus), Bundibugyo virus (species Bundibugyo ebolavirus), Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus), Sudan virus (species Sudan ebolavirus), Reston virus (species Reston ebolavirus), and Bombali virus (species Bombali ebolavirus). Of these, only four (Ebola, Sudan, Taï […]