Harrison WorldLAB Symposium

 


Topic: Ebola Virus

Group Members: Brandon, Jeremy, Harold, Nina

Question guiding the project: What is the ebola virus, and how does it effect people that are infected with it?

Overview of the three required learning activities:
1.CDC
2.Webpage
3.World Health organization (reasearch)

Findings :
1.There are four strands of the ebolivirus.
2.The four differant strands are : filovirus arena virus, flavvivruses, and bungaviruses.
3.The hosts can be ticks and mosquitoes.
4.The hosts can be rodents.
5.The Ebola virus was discovered in 1976.
6.As the disease progresses, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, sore throat, and chest pain can occour.
7.The most deadly is the Filovirus.

Conclusion: The ebola virus is a virus that affects all areas in your body. It is only contacted through touch, it is not spread through air.
 
Questions raised for further study:
1.Is there ever going to be a cure?
2.If there was a cure, what would that be?