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Words of a survivour: Ebola Virus Disease

Words of a survivour: Ebola Virus Disease

The words of a ebola-survivor, Emaan Anwar, who wants the world to know this:

Ebola virus is a highly pathogenic filovirus causing severe hemorrhagic fever . It assembles heterogeneous, filamentous, enveloped virus particles having  a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome packaged within a helical nucleocapsid .The virus family Filoviridae includes 3 genera : Cuevavirus , Marburgvirus ,and…

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Geneva (AFP) - The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola fever has now killed more than 2,400 people and infected twice that number, according to a new toll released on Friday by the World Health Organization. Source: AFP

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Guinea appealed for calm in the Ebola-hit south of the country on Saturday after international aid workers battling to contain an outbreak of the deadly virus were attacked by a mob. Doctors without Borders, which goes by its French initials MSF, was forced to suspend treatment in Macenta in southeastern Guinea on Friday after crowds attacked one of its centres. Conakry said the crowd had gathered as rumours circulated in the town that the virus was "imported into Guinea or that Ebola fever does not exist in our country". Several west African countries have geared up to tackle killer haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola as new suspect cases emerged in Mali, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone. Source: AFP

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Guinea appealed for calm in the Ebola-hit south of the country on Saturday after international aid workers battling to contain an outbreak of the deadly virus were attacked by a mob. Doctors without Borders, which goes by its French initials MSF, was forced to suspend treatment in Macenta in southeastern Guinea on Friday after crowds attacked one of its centres. Conakry said the crowd had gathered as rumours circulated in the town that the virus was "imported into Guinea or that Ebola fever does not exist in our country". Several west African countries have geared up to tackle killer haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola as new suspect cases emerged in Mali, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone. Source: AFP