The researchers also looked at the effectiveness of airport screenings in stopping the spread of the Ebola virus.
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The Ebola virus is a highly infectious, often fatal agent spread through direct contact with bodily fluids.
He has recently developed a research interest in understanding the securitization and structural violence of the Ebola Virus Disease in Africa.
That will be peanuts compared to what could happen with tularemia, Ebola virus, or Marburg virus.
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In West Africa the Ebola virus killed 5, 000 gorillas in just one corner of the Republic of the Congo.
The Ebola virus was first detected in 1976 in the central African nation of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The Ebola virus was contained but the entire village was wiped out.
The extinction of elephants, the threat of mad-cow disease, outbreaks of the Ebola virus, and chemicals that mimic sex hormones are all fashionable.
And now comes an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, the contagious and incurable fever that makes its victims bleed to death through their ears, nose, throat, everywhere.
Before joining CNNI, Kinkade worked for Seven Network Australia, most recently as a freelance correspondent from New York where she filed reports on the Polar Vortex, the push to legalize marijuana, Boeing's first space taxi, the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 and the spread of the Ebola virus.
Around 30 such diseases have emerged during the past two decades or so notably Hanta virus and Ebola fever.
Angola sealed its border with Congo to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus , an incurable Ebola-like haemorrhagic disease that has killed at least 146 people.
Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.
In Uganda's first recorded outbreak of Ebola , around 40 people are known to have died from the deadly virus.
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