The Ebola Virus
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A virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having no
independent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of another host
organism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA,
surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a lipid layer
surrounds it as well. The virus provides ....
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.... is actually what
kill victims of the Ebola virus. Hemorrhagic fever as defined in Mosby's
Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary as, a group of viral aerosol
infections, characterized by fever, chills, headache, malaise, and respiratory
or GI symptoms, followed by capillary hemorrhages, and, in severe infection,
oliguria, kidney failure, hypotension, and, possibly, death. The incubation
period for Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever ranges fro ....
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