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a place requiring the wearing of mask, gown and gloves careful sterilization of needles and syringes and proper disposal of waste and corpses. Causing death in 85% of all ill cases. More than 5,000 people have been infected worldwide. Victims go mad, endure unbelievable pain, with blood leaking from every orifice. Yet no one knows where the virus comes from, or when it will strike next. Although humans have gotten Ebola from infected monkeys, these primates are considered unlikely long-term hosts because the virus kills them. Until now, scientists do not know where does the virus lives in nature, or who is the original host. But they hypothetically believe that it came from the forest. The gruesome mystery of who’s the original host of the Ebola virus remains unanswered. While

the monkey remain the main suspect, efforts have been done to minimize the spreading of the disease. "One of deadliest diseases known has emerged from the forests of Africa" said Purvis, an author of a published article in the Time magazine. Purvis discussed the scientists suspensions about the original host of this lethal virus in his article. He said that the scientists had suspected that the disease which killed 245 in the Zairian town of Kikwit, was transmitted to humans from Chimpanzees or eating dead monkeys. Colobus monkeys, for example, can transmit the virus to chimpanzees, which hunt them, and people get the virus after eating a dead chimp, and that where the theory that chimp carry the virus came from Elizabeth Neus, an Idaho statesman author, agrees with

Purvis that chimpanzees might be the real host for the virus. Purvis and Neus both agree that the theory looks pretty solid since the last out Break of the Ebola virus. However, this theory contradicts what Steve Sternberg, who scientifically proved, that bats only the bats proved capable of carrying Ebola. bats could be the animal host that scientist have searched for ever since Ebola first emerged in Zaire. Researchers have been greatly slowed by extreme of pathogens of the virus. Weather Ebola can be cured or not? Will be forever a mystery, till scientists can slow the rapid growth of those viruses. Slow enough to give man kind a fighting chance to their existence, and slow than messages that is transmitted by the internet