Lareina Chen
Mr. Stuart Hayward
Biology
17 May 2018
Discover Ebola
You woke up in the morning, feeling unwell. You have no appetite, your head is aching, your throat is sore and you think you might get a fever. You don’t know it yet, but maybe Ebola is making this trouble. What is Ebola? Basically, Ebola is a fatal disease that is caused by a virus. Ebola has five strains, four out of five of them will make people feel very sick. After the virus gets into your body, it kills cells, and some of them will explode, in your body. The explosion destroys your immune system, which causes heavy bleeding inside the body, and damages most of the organs in your body. Recently, 19 people have died of Ebola in Congo. Among the dead were three health-care
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Basically, it doesn't really kill all the virus in this disease, but still, it prevents people from being infected. The more people are being prevented, the less chance of people will get this disease. Ebola has caused many severe problems, not only to humans, but the Ebola crisis can also have a serious impact on environmental, economical and social problems, in both good and bad ways. Many donors all over the world had donated to the organizations in order to help the patients. By December 2015, the total donation has been more than $3.611 billion USD, and it's a very considerable amount of money. In addition, some funds had constructed three new emergency operations centers in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. These donations and constructions, benefit the economy. On the other hand, because of this virus, over $2.2 billion was lost in 2015 in the GDP, according to the World Bank. From the beginning of the Ebola outbreak, 881 health workers were infected, and 513 of them were reported to death. The amount of medical workers had declined rapidly, only in a few years. Not only to the environment, children were also being greatly impacted by the