What is Ebola virus?
Q: What is Ebola virus?
A: Ebola virus, or Ebola virus disease (EVD), is a very dangerous virus that belongs to the family Filoviridae.
Q: How many types of Ebola virus are there?
A: There are four different types of Ebola virus.
Q: What kind of symptoms does an infection with the Ebola virus cause?
A: An infection with the Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever which starts suddenly and can lead to bleeding both inside and outside of the body. It also attacks almost every organ and tissue in the human body, causing multiple organs to fail at once.
Q: How deadly is an infection with the Ebola virus?
A: Out of every 100 people who get infected with the Ebola virus, on average 25 to 90 die from it.
Q: Where was the first case of Ebola found?
A: The first case of Ebolavirus was found in Sudan.
Q: Where is it mostly found today? A: Today, it is mostly found in Africa, although there have been very few cases reported in Europe and the United States.
