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Describe what happens when a person becomes infected with the ebola virus
about a one page descriptive essay
about a one page descriptive essay
From the text:
Ebola kills quickly.
"Ebola is a rather simple virus-as simple as a firestorm. It kills humans which swift efficiency and with a devastating range of effects."
Symptoms include rashes and psychosis, Ebola also acts like a bad cold.
"...it triggers a rash all over the body. some of its effects resemble rabies-psychosis, madness. Other of its effects look eerily like a bad cold."
Ebola proteins attack the immune system.
Ebola is deadly:
"You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish."
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