The Ebola virus, seen here in a colorized transmission electron micrograph, has a distinct shape.
Frederick A. Murphy/CDC
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Brandon D.
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I absolutely loved the article. Before it, I had absolutely had no idea what the virus was! Now after I read it, I have a clear understanding and now I know why it is so horrible. The article also told me that people are about to find a cure, which I find incredibly exciting.
I absolutely loved the article. Before it, I had absolutely had no idea what the virus was! Now after I read it, I have a clear understanding and now I know why it is so horrible. The article also told me that people are about to find a cure, which I find incredibly exciting.
I think this article is helpful, but not enough. They talk slightly about the closely related brother to Ebola, Marburg, but not enough. One of my biggest questions is where Ebola and Marburg came from. I found out that Ebola came from African monkeys, chimps and other nonhuman primates. They have also found traces of Ebola in monkeys and pigs in the Philippines. Marburg virus has been found in monkeys, chimps and fruit bats in Africa. A lot of the reason it spreads so much is because these places, ie Serria Leon, are not clean. How it first spread was by people eating animals infected with Ebola. Also, people have gotten sick from hunting in the forest and stepping on the feces of an animal that has Ebola.
I thought that the article was quite informative, but they did not mention that the Nipah virus and Influenza were actually part of the Henipavirus family, and I find that Interesting. I looked them up and found that they are mostly in pigs and bats. I never new that Ebola was named after a river, but I did know that Sierra Leone is an Ebola hotspot. When I was on vacation I saw on T.V. that Ebola was starting to get contagious, and I was frightened to hear that a man with Ebola was traveling to the US, but after reading this article I know I am safe because they are working on making a medicine to save Ebola patients
Here was something else I found. It was on BBC news. "All but 27 of the cases have occurred in West Africa - in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea."
The news loves reporting about things that make your blood presser rise. All the stuff about Ebola spreading like wildfire is true, but no where near us.
I thought that this was a really informative article on the spread of Ebola. It did a really good job of explaining how this deadly disease got its start and where it came from. This is probably the best article I've read today because it gives people who haven't even heard about the disease enough information to know what is going on. It was also very interesting to know that there is a potential vaccine.
I enjoyed this article because it was very helpful. I was wondering what Ebola was but I never got around to researching it. I agree with Kendall, it is helpful but not enough. I don't get how people get the disease or where the disease comes from. The article doesn't provide enough information for me. Some of the information in the article was interesting but it didn't help me understand what Ebola really is. The article told me about how it got the name and other useless information. I want to know how the doctors don't catch Ebola when they are trying to cure them. I asked a friends dad who works with Ebola. He said they wear very protective suits. He said he is always sweating like crazy when he works because they wear so many layers so that they don't catch Ebola.
I think this article was interesting. It explained what happens to you when you get infected, but I don't think it explained enough, for example why animals don't get infected. Also, it didn't explain how Ebola originated. Although the article says that Ebola cannot spread through air, I wonder if Ebola can hang on to dust or water particles in the air.
I agree with Ayden. What else could Ebola be on? If we are unable to have this information, soon people could catch Ebola from things that we didn't know could have Ebola. I did some research and found out that a vaccine strong enough to stop severe cases of Ebola could take 10 to 15 years just to find out the right chemicals. This means we might not have enough of the right chemicals to create enough vaccine. If this keeps on happening, the world will soon collapse due to a massive Ebola outbreak. we have to watch out.
I really liked this article. It was very kid friendly and easy to understand. I always wondered where the Ebola virus starts. In fact when I heard the news of Ebola the first thing that I wondered was what was the source of it.
I have always wondered what the Ebola virus was. After reading this article, I found out. My dad first told me that Ebola comes from monkeys, bats, deers etc. He was right. I think that Ebola is a very interesting virus, yet dangerous. Ayden, you brought a point up about why animals don't get infected from the Ebola virus. I think it's because it's normal for those types of animals to be born with it. I believe that it runs in their blood from the moment that they are born to the moment that they die. I think that the disease can spread very easily especially due to vomit.
Wow. I read this and it shocked me. I mean, sure, this is a wildfire-spreading disease, HIGHLY contagious, but what does feces have to do with it? It's crazy how many different ways people can get Ebola. It is an unfortunate thing; a lot of people eat meat, but you never know what meat you're eating. Like Kendall said, you could be hunting, kill an animal, and eat it! And it has Ebola!! Just like that, it is spreading like a fire around the world and could infect a lot of people. Remember, just wash your hands!
When I first started to reed the article I was a little scared. When I was reading it, in the first paragraph it said that Ebola can kill 25 to 88 percent of the people it infects. I know that isn't a lot but I don't like to hear about death and stuff. Then I started to like it and think it was very interesting. In the second paragraph it said the good news and I wasn't as scared anymore. I am glad that people are finding a cure for this. I like how they tell us how Ebola spreads around. That is very coo.l I think this article is very interested overall, but I agree with Kendall. There isn't enough information. Like she said, I also want to know where Ebola and Marburg came form. I want to learn more about it.
I too had no idea what Ebola was. Now that I have read the article, it is pretty deadly. People bleed to death because of Ebola. If I were a doctor right now, I would totally want to cure Ebola. The science behind it is so cool. What I find interesting is that animals can have the virus on them but without getting ill by themselves. It's so sad to kill an animal and get Ebola from it.
If any of you haven't heard already, there were two nurses in Dallas that actually were able to rid the virus. That's pretty amazing considering once you get it there is a pretty low chance that you will survive. By January 15 the people infected with Ebola will have risen to a staggering 1.4 MILLION! There is also a 50-90 mortality rate if you get the disease. That information was from http://www.laopinion.com/is-there-a-way-to-boost-your-chances-of-surviving-ebola.
This was a informative article on Ebola. I was relived to hear that Ebola could only be transmitted through the contact of bodily fluids. I think though that Ebola will not be much of a threat in the future because it is so hard to transmit. The article says that people are also close to a cure and that is another reason why I believe that the outbreak will come to a close soon. I researched a little and found out that one of the main reasons why people get Ebola is because of eating animals that have the disease. I found this very interesting.
I loved this article and I had heard of this virus but in a minimal way. This article helped me learn why this virus is harmful and how it does what it does. I also want to read in the newspaper sometime soon when there is a cure for it.
WOW! This article was alluring! It is unbelievable that the cure for Ebola was not yet found! I hope there is a cure soon because a lot of people are having BAD reactions to this disease. I was not aware that Ebola can cause extremely harmful reactions to human beings. Such as fevers, headaches, muscle pains, and I don't really want to say the other three. Filovirus (the germ responsible for causing Ebola) is a threadlike germ that no one knows where the virus hides in humans. Overall, I really hope people find the cure!
This article was very interesting. Lately I have been thinking a lot about Ebola and what is going on with this disease. I have also found that it has come from Africa and someone with Ebola came to the United States. Only a few people have been tested positive with Ebola and they were all quarantined. We are being so careful that the odds are that Ebola does not have a good chance of spreading.
I agree with all the people who said that this article wasn't very helpful because all it really stated was where the name came from and how its spread and the blood part. However, I did not know that it was a blood disease and I think that makes this one of the most interesting diseases because most I know are viruses that can be spread through air. My question though is how did people that were tested positive for ebola survive through treatment and become negative if there is no cure?
Before reading this, I was kind of at a loss about what Ebola was. I mean, everyone's talking about it, but what IS it? After this article, I'm still not so sure what Ebola is. I completely agree with Kendall. They don't explain Ebola as much as I would like. I'm interested in learning more, though! It's so cool that the virus spreads through blood!
I think that this article was really interesting because of the recent attacks. I never knew much about Ebola which was one of the reasons that I read this article. I thought that the facts were very specific. I loved the facts that talked about the ranges of numbers. I am glad that more and more people in the USA are learning about Ebola because this should be taught more in schools. The words in this article really touched my heart.
I feel that this article was interesting, but not quite informative enough. It gave out information about Ebola, but not a lot of specifics. It does not tell us where it comes and it starts to change the subject about half-way through the article.
I thought this article was very interesting. Before I read it, I had a vague idea of Ebola. All I knew about it was that it was a virus, that it was infecting Africa, and that it killed majority of the people it infecting with. When I first heard about it on the news, I was scared. But now, thanks to the reading of the article, I now have learned so more facts that have enhanced my knowledge of the Ebola virus and I know this intelligence will be very useful. One reason why I was scared was because I thought that it would start infecting the U.S. and then eventually come to me. However, it informed us that the Ebola virus (a filovirus) does not spread by air; it spreads by contact. I discussed and caucused this with my father and we did a little research on this. I don't think this is entirely true. Based on evidence I got from http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html, which is a reliable source, I learned that the Ebola virus is not transmitted through air like many viruses (like influenza or measles), but it can be transmitted through coughs or sneezes or surfaces which can count as air. I also thought it was interesting how they encountered a placebo-like conundrum when trying out an experimental drug. This was a good article and I certainly learned a lot.
I think that this article is very interesting. It is very helpful and shows problems in the world. It shows lots of information about the virus spreading in west africa. One thing I did not know is that Ebola does not spread throught the air. I thought that it was easy to spread but apparently it isn't. It is a very good article about a terrible problem in the world.
Quick Comment: I feel like having viruses are slightly good and bad for everyone in the world. If we didn't have anything wrong in the world, the world would be overpopulated. Viruses and all the bad things in the world make life balanced. People who chose to do the wrong thing may end up dying, because they were obese. But, the person who chose the right option of staying healthy would have a child. This keeps the world balanced. (Okay, so that wasn't that short of a comment...)
I think that this article does a pretty clear job explaining what Ebola is. I think that it's great that people are working on a cure, but if it seemed to have worked, why don't they do more tests or put it out in markets if it is safe? That would definitely help the worldwide spread of the disease lessen.
Natalie, people can die from viruses. Even if the world might be a bit crowded, we want people to live! I do think that they balance out the world, but I disagree that people have to make the choices. Of course everyone decides if they want to eat healthy food or junk food, but people can have genes from relatives that can create obesity. But then, obesity is not a virus. It's a disease (I checked). With viruses, we still have a lot more room on Earth for people to live in. Check this website about the population growth: https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/statbriefs/agebrief.html
Natalie, I think that is a good thought about Ebola. But as Sarina said it is also very dangerous and people can die from viruses. Although I think that is good thinking about the overpopulation, I actually agree with you a bit. I would not like having Ebola and I do not think anyone would enjoy having Ebola. I just hope that Ebola does not take over the world, or get a lot of people sick.
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I absolutely loved the article. Before it, I had absolutely had no idea what the virus was! Now after I read it, I have a clear understanding and now I know why it is so horrible. The article also told me that people are about to find a cure, which I find incredibly exciting.
I absolutely loved the article. Before it, I had absolutely had no idea what the virus was! Now after I read it, I have a clear understanding and now I know why it is so horrible. The article also told me that people are about to find a cure, which I find incredibly exciting.
I think this article is helpful, but not enough. They talk slightly about the closely related brother to Ebola, Marburg, but not enough. One of my biggest questions is where Ebola and Marburg came from. I found out that Ebola came from African monkeys, chimps and other nonhuman primates. They have also found traces of Ebola in monkeys and pigs in the Philippines. Marburg virus has been found in monkeys, chimps and fruit bats in Africa. A lot of the reason it spreads so much is because these places, ie Serria Leon, are not clean. How it first spread was by people eating animals infected with Ebola. Also, people have gotten sick from hunting in the forest and stepping on the feces of an animal that has Ebola.
I thought that the article was quite informative, but they did not mention that the Nipah virus and Influenza were actually part of the Henipavirus family, and I find that Interesting. I looked them up and found that they are mostly in pigs and bats. I never new that Ebola was named after a river, but I did know that Sierra Leone is an Ebola hotspot.
When I was on vacation I saw on T.V. that Ebola was starting to get contagious, and I was frightened to hear that a man with Ebola was traveling to the US, but after reading this article I know I am safe because they are working on making a medicine to save Ebola patients
Here was something else I found. It was on BBC news. "All but 27 of the cases have occurred in West Africa - in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea."
The news loves reporting about things that make your blood presser rise. All the stuff about Ebola spreading like wildfire is true, but no where near us.
I thought that this was a really informative article on the spread of Ebola. It did a really good job of explaining how this deadly disease got its start and where it came from. This is probably the best article I've read today because it gives people who haven't even heard about the disease enough information to know what is going on. It was also very interesting to know that there is a potential vaccine.
I enjoyed this article because it was very helpful. I was wondering what Ebola was but I never got around to researching it. I agree with Kendall, it is helpful but not enough. I don't get how people get the disease or where the disease comes from. The article doesn't provide enough information for me. Some of the information in the article was interesting but it didn't help me understand what Ebola really is. The article told me about how it got the name and other useless information. I want to know how the doctors don't catch Ebola when they are trying to cure them. I asked a friends dad who works with Ebola. He said they wear very protective suits. He said he is always sweating like crazy when he works because they wear so many layers so that they don't catch Ebola.
I think this article was interesting. It explained what happens to you when you get infected, but I don't think it explained enough, for example why animals don't get infected. Also, it didn't explain how Ebola originated. Although the article says that Ebola cannot spread through air, I wonder if Ebola can hang on to dust or water particles in the air.
I agree with Ayden. What else could Ebola be on? If we are unable to have this information, soon people could catch Ebola from things that we didn't know could have Ebola. I did some research and found out that a vaccine strong enough to stop severe cases of Ebola could take 10 to 15 years just to find out the right chemicals. This means we might not have enough of the right chemicals to create enough vaccine. If this keeps on happening, the world will soon collapse due to a massive Ebola outbreak. we have to watch out.
I really liked this article. It was very kid friendly and easy to understand. I always wondered where the Ebola virus starts. In fact when I heard the news of Ebola the first thing that I wondered was what was the source of it.
I have always wondered what the Ebola virus was. After reading this article, I found out. My dad first told me that Ebola comes from monkeys, bats, deers etc. He was right. I think that Ebola is a very interesting virus, yet dangerous. Ayden, you brought a point up about why animals don't get infected from the Ebola virus. I think it's because it's normal for those types of animals to be born with it. I believe that it runs in their blood from the moment that they are born to the moment that they die. I think that the disease can spread very easily especially due to vomit.
Wow. I read this and it shocked me. I mean, sure, this is a wildfire-spreading disease, HIGHLY contagious, but what does feces have to do with it? It's crazy how many different ways people can get Ebola. It is an unfortunate thing; a lot of people eat meat, but you never know what meat you're eating. Like Kendall said, you could be hunting, kill an animal, and eat it! And it has Ebola!! Just like that, it is spreading like a fire around the world and could infect a lot of people. Remember, just wash your hands!
When I first started to reed the article I was a little scared. When I was reading it, in the first paragraph it said that Ebola can kill 25 to 88 percent of the people it infects. I know that isn't a lot but I don't like to hear about death and stuff. Then I started to like it and think it was very interesting. In the second paragraph it said the good news and I wasn't as scared anymore. I am glad that people are finding a cure for this. I like how they tell us how Ebola spreads around. That is very coo.l I think this article is very interested overall, but I agree with Kendall. There isn't enough information. Like she said, I also want to know where Ebola and Marburg came form. I want to learn more about it.
I too had no idea what Ebola was. Now that I have read the article, it is pretty deadly. People bleed to death because of Ebola. If I were a doctor right now, I would totally want to cure Ebola. The science behind it is so cool. What I find interesting is that animals can have the virus on them but without getting ill by themselves. It's so sad to kill an animal and get Ebola from it.
If any of you haven't heard already, there were two nurses in Dallas that actually were able to rid the virus. That's pretty amazing considering once you get it there is a pretty low chance that you will survive. By January 15 the people infected with Ebola will have risen to a staggering 1.4 MILLION! There is also a 50-90 mortality rate if you get the disease. That information was from http://www.laopinion.com/is-there-a-way-to-boost-your-chances-of-surviving-ebola.
This was a informative article on Ebola. I was relived to hear that Ebola could only be transmitted through the contact of bodily fluids. I think though that Ebola will not be much of a threat in the future because it is so hard to transmit. The article says that people are also close to a cure and that is another reason why I believe that the outbreak will come to a close soon. I researched a little and found out that one of the main reasons why people get Ebola is because of eating animals that have the disease. I found this very interesting.
I loved this article and I had heard of this virus but in a minimal way. This article helped me learn why this virus is harmful and how it does what it does. I also want to read in the newspaper sometime soon when there is a cure for it.
WOW! This article was alluring! It is unbelievable that the cure for Ebola was not yet found! I hope there is a cure soon because a lot of people are having BAD reactions to this disease. I was not aware that Ebola can cause extremely harmful reactions to human beings. Such as fevers, headaches, muscle pains, and I don't really want to say the other three. Filovirus (the germ responsible for causing Ebola) is a threadlike germ that no one knows where the virus hides in humans. Overall, I really hope people find the cure!
This article was very interesting. Lately I have been thinking a lot about Ebola and what is going on with this disease. I have also found that it has come from Africa and someone with Ebola came to the United States. Only a few people have been tested positive with Ebola and they were all quarantined. We are being so careful that the odds are that Ebola does not have a good chance of spreading.
I agree with all the people who said that this article wasn't very helpful because all it really stated was where the name came from and how its spread and the blood part. However, I did not know that it was a blood disease and I think that makes this one of the most interesting diseases because most I know are viruses that can be spread through air. My question though is how did people that were tested positive for ebola survive through treatment and become negative if there is no cure?
Before reading this, I was kind of at a loss about what Ebola was. I mean, everyone's talking about it, but what IS it? After this article, I'm still not so sure what Ebola is. I completely agree with Kendall. They don't explain Ebola as much as I would like. I'm interested in learning more, though! It's so cool that the virus spreads through blood!
I think that this article was really interesting because of the recent attacks. I never knew much about Ebola which was one of the reasons that I read this article. I thought that the facts were very specific. I loved the facts that talked about the ranges of numbers. I am glad that more and more people in the USA are learning about Ebola because this should be taught more in schools. The words in this article really touched my heart.
I feel that this article was interesting, but not quite informative enough. It gave out information about Ebola, but not a lot of specifics. It does not tell us where it comes and it starts to change the subject about half-way through the article.
I thought this article was very interesting. Before I read it, I had a vague idea of Ebola. All I knew about it was that it was a virus, that it was infecting Africa, and that it killed majority of the people it infecting with. When I first heard about it on the news, I was scared. But now, thanks to the reading of the article, I now have learned so more facts that have enhanced my knowledge of the Ebola virus and I know this intelligence will be very useful. One reason why I was scared was because I thought that it would start infecting the U.S. and then eventually come to me. However, it informed us that the Ebola virus (a filovirus) does not spread by air; it spreads by contact. I discussed and caucused this with my father and we did a little research on this. I don't think this is entirely true. Based on evidence I got from http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/qas.html, which is a reliable source, I learned that the Ebola virus is not transmitted through air like many viruses (like influenza or measles), but it can be transmitted through coughs or sneezes or surfaces which can count as air. I also thought it was interesting how they encountered a placebo-like conundrum when trying out an experimental drug. This was a good article and I certainly learned a lot.
I think that this article is very interesting. It is very helpful and shows problems in the world. It shows lots of information about the virus spreading in west africa. One thing I did not know is that Ebola does not spread throught the air. I thought that it was easy to spread but apparently it isn't. It is a very good article about a terrible problem in the world.
Quick Comment: I feel like having viruses are slightly good and bad for everyone in the world. If we didn't have anything wrong in the world, the world would be overpopulated. Viruses and all the bad things in the world make life balanced. People who chose to do the wrong thing may end up dying, because they were obese. But, the person who chose the right option of staying healthy would have a child. This keeps the world balanced. (Okay, so that wasn't that short of a comment...)
I think that this article does a pretty clear job explaining what Ebola is. I think that it's great that people are working on a cure, but if it seemed to have worked, why don't they do more tests or put it out in markets if it is safe? That would definitely help the worldwide spread of the disease lessen.
Natalie, people can die from viruses. Even if the world might be a bit crowded, we want people to live! I do think that they balance out the world, but I disagree that people have to make the choices. Of course everyone decides if they want to eat healthy food or junk food, but people can have genes from relatives that can create obesity. But then, obesity is not a virus. It's a disease (I checked). With viruses, we still have a lot more room on Earth for people to live in. Check this website about the population growth:
https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/statbriefs/agebrief.html
Natalie, I think that is a good thought about Ebola. But as Sarina said it is also very dangerous and people can die from viruses. Although I think that is good thinking about the overpopulation, I actually agree with you a bit. I would not like having Ebola and I do not think anyone would enjoy having Ebola. I just hope that Ebola does not take over the world, or get a lot of people sick.
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