an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus ( Ebola virus ), whose normal host species is unknown.
A very deadly disease which the original host is unknown. Ebola was first recognized in 1976. There are four known subtypes of the Ebola virus, Ebola-Zaire which kills 90% of people, Ebola-Sudan which kills 50% of people, Ebola-Ivory Coast, and Ebola Restin which is not fatal in humans. Ebola causes people to spew blood and other fluids out of every orifice of their body, and is transmitted by these fluids.
A level 4 pathogen, the Ebola virus is pound for poundthe deadliest disease known to man. Ebola has a mortality rate of over 80%. There have been 4 outbreaks of Ebola and all of them have occured in Africa.