Part one of term paper
March 1, 1996 Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and when you come home you are horribly sick. Your head hurts, you have a highfever, and you start vomiting. Chances are that you may havecontracted the Ebola virus. Ebola was first discovered in the village of Yambuku(1) nearthe Ebola River in Zaire. Since its discovery, t ...

Part two of term paper
... or what the original host is.However, scientists know that man is not ebola's natural host(3).The host was first suspected of being carried by monkeys in the African rain forests(4), but in one case the monkeys at a holding facility broke out and had to be killed. In the pursuit of a cure and an origin, there have beenseveral teams of scientists whose top priority is to find theviruses origin(5). The teams have trekked through the rainforests of Africa to collecting different species of anim ...