Title: Ebola Virus: Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Symptoms
Headings: Ebola Virus: Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Symptoms
Ebola Virus: Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Symptoms
What Is Ebola Virus?
Ebola Outbreaks
How Is Ebola Transmitted?
What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Ebola?
Is Ebola Airborne?
What Is the Fatality Rate of Ebola?
Is There Any Treatment for Ebola?
Is There an Ebola Vaccine?
Other Potential Treatments for Ebola
Can Ebola Be Prevented?

Content: The ZMapp therapy consists of three monoclonal antibodies that are designed to treat existing Ebola infection. Monoclonal antibodies work by binding to proteins in the virus and “targeting” them for destruction by the immune system. Research continues into these therapeutic approaches. Some drugs may be more effective in outbreaks with different strains of Ebola. These are difficult drugs to develop because Ebola virus is an RNA virus, and as such it is always mutating, according to the CDC. Can Ebola Be Prevented? Ebola virus infection has never taken place in the United States, according to the CDC. The only people with Ebola infection in the US acquired the disease elsewhere or got the infection from someone who entered the country already infected like two US caregivers. People in areas known to have cases of Ebola can take the following precautions to minimize the risk of contracting the virus. Meticulous hygiene is necessary.