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The article reviewed in this paper is “The Re-emergence of the deadly Ebola virus disease: A Global Health Threat on Ebola” by Sherpa, K. K. “The Ebola virus is a member of the negative stranded RNA viruses known as filoviruses”. (Sherpa, K. K. (2014) According to Sherpa, K. K. (2014). “There are four different strains of the Ebola virus - Zaire(EBOZ), Sudan (EBOS), Tai (EBOT) and Reston (EBOR)”. These different strains hold only small differences in gene. The strain known as the “Reston Strain” does not have an effect on human beings. Ebola was first named after a river in Zaire; Africa called the Ebola River where the first outbreak was documented back in 1976. According to …show more content…
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