Ebol Zoonotic Disease

could be found. Ebola tends to just go away for years at a time, which is what makes it a difficult virus to track. On down the road, there would become five species of ebolavirus: Zaire virus, Sudan virus, Reston virus, Taï Forest virus, and Bundibugyo virus. Bundibugyo virus emerged in 2007 and a reservoir host still has not been found. Gorillas have been found to have antibodies, but hat doesn’t mean they are the reservoirs. Malaria was first believed to no be zoonotic because “the four kinds of malarial parasite that infect humans infect only humans.” If malaria is not zoonotic, then why is it in a book about zoonotic diseases? The author sort of answered that question. There were multiple studies on how malaria might have become a zoonotic disease, but that didn’t answer my question. The real answer came later on …show more content…
Eventually, SARS became known as a coronavirus and became known as SARS coronavirus or SARS-CoV. So in what living organism did this disease originate? That answer is unclear, but the coronavirus was detected in bats, as well as civets. Q-fever, Psittacosis and Lyme disease are cause by bacterium. When the agent of Q-fever, Coxiella burnetii, was found, researchers started looking for the source. It actually has multiple sources, most of which are cattle, sheep and goats. Psittacosis is also known as parrot fever. It first occurred in 1892 in Paris after two animal dealers got infected and in turn infected others with the disease.