Part one of term paper
is one of the most deadly viruses that man kind has ever seen. In clinical cases it has a mortality rate of 50%-90%. The Viruses has many different strains including Marburg, Ebola Zaire, Reston and Sudan, each named after the location of their first clinical case. They each cause different symptoms and different mortality rates. Non the les ...

Part two of term paper
... exposed to tissue and blood from African green monkeys imported from Uganda. They were to be used as tests subjects. 25 of the workers were exposed to the virus, 7 died. The same virus had confirmed cases in Uganda at approximately the same time. Sporadic instances of the Marburg strain have been reported in several other African countries since then. The first major outbreak of the ebola virus was in 1976, in Zaire and in Sudan. "Over 500 cases were reported, with mortality rates of 88% in Zaire ...