Chapter 213: Circle of Friends (23)
Ebola virus: Out of the rainforest, I'm going to go to the world.
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AIDS: Wow, my dear Ebola brother, you're finally out of the rainforest.
Dengue fever: Brother Ebola, it's amazing, it's been doing things in the world lately, and it's making people feel terrible.
AIDS Returns to Dengue Fever: Ebola Is My Brother, When Will You Become Your Dengue Brother? Ebola and I both came out of the rainforest.
Dengue fever back to AIDS: I also came out of the rainforest.
AIDS back to dengue fever: My Ebola lives in monkeys, and you ride mosquitoes for dengue fever.
Ebola virus back to AIDS: Xiao Ai, I ride bats, bats are my natural storage hosts, when I live with monkeys, monkeys get sick, unlike you can live peacefully with monkeys.
AIDS replies to Ebola: Almost, I often meet you in monkeys, so we are brothers.
Rabies Responds to AIDS: I'm also a bat rider, and I'm brothers with Ebola.
Ebola virus replies to rabies: Well, we often encounter it in bats, we are neighbors.
Marburg virus replies to Ebola: We all have the shape of a filament, we are all members of the Filoviridae family, and we are brothers.
AIDS Replies to Marburg Virus: Wow, ponies are also the new stars of our viral world, and they are very pathogenic to humans.
Flu replies to Ebola: Ebola virus is so mysterious, ask for autobiography!
Ebola: Here is my autobiography!
I, the Ebola virus, belong to the genus Ebola virus in the Filoviridae family.
I'm very small, measured in nanometers, and under the electron microscope I look like a slender silk thread.
I was first discovered near the Ebola River basin, so I was named "Ebola" after the name of the place where it was first discovered.
I have many brothers, and there are five that are well known to mankind: Zaire Ebola, Sudan Ebola, Tayi Forest Ebola, Reston Ebola, BEBOV.
They are all powerful in their own way, some can easily kill monkeys without infecting humans, and some can kill humans, and the fatality rate is as high as 90%.
I first lived on bats in the rainforest, and I was able to live peacefully with bats.
Occasionally, I go around monkeys and gorillas.
More than 40 years ago, a hunter came into my territory and killed a gorilla, skinned and bone-freed the gorilla.
There was also a kid who ate fruit that had been bitten by my cute fruit bat host.
From then on, I entered the world.
After I enter the human body, I first destroy the immune function of the host.
It's very similar to HIV, but it's different.
I was able to cause a cytokine storm in the human body, and with massive apoptosis of T cells and B cells, I began to attack the host like crazy.
The human host will have fever, fatigue, muscle aches, diarrhea, and rash.
Kidney and liver function begins to be impaired.
This is followed by hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, bleeding gums, hematemesis, bloody stools, and hematuria......
Eventually, the human host will be lethargic, anuria, bleeding, and multi-organ failure until death from shock.
The blood of humans who die from my infection does not clot.
I was able to continue to multiply in this non-clotting blood and remain viable for several weeks, waiting for an opportunity to infect my next contact.
My main route of transmission in humans is close contact with the blood, tears, saliva and other bodily fluids of infected people.
So far, I haven't been able to spread it from person to person through airborne droplets.
Even so, my popular history on earth has made all mankind tremble.
I've only been popular for more than 40 years.
However, the human tragedies I have created are still quite influential.
In 1976, I first appeared in the Ebola River basin in the Zaire region of Africa, infecting 318 people and dying 280, with a mortality rate of 88%.
Also in 1976, I reappeared in Sudan, infecting 284 people and dying 151, a mortality rate of 53 per cent.
In 1995, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 315 people were infected and 254 died, with a mortality rate of 81%.
In 2000, in the Uganda region, 425 people were infected and 224 died, a mortality rate of 53 per cent.
In 2003, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 143 people were infected and 128 died, with a mortality rate of 90 per cent.
In 2007, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 246 people were infected and 187 died, a mortality rate of 71 per cent.
Also in 2007, Guinea, 2,730 people were infected and 1,739 died, with a mortality rate of 64%.
In 2014, in Libya, 8,018 people were infected and 3,423 died, with a mortality rate of 43%.
Also in 2014, Sierra Leone, infected 9,633 people and killed 2,827, with a mortality rate of 29%.
Unfortunately, I was too destructive to the human host, and before I could multiply and complete the long-lasting chain of transmission, the human host would be killed by me.
So, like a ghost, I suddenly appeared in the human world and suddenly disappeared.
I've been lurking in the rainforest for a long time with bats, monkeys, and gorillas, and as soon as humans set foot on my territory, I have a chance to return to the human world.
AIDS replies to Ebola: Awesome, my Ebola brother!
Flu responds to Ebola: No wonder Ebola keeps coming and going without a trace, because the human host dies too quickly.
Ebola Virus Returns to Influenza: I believe that at my rate of mutation, one day I will be able to become a global epidemic like my flu brother when I adapt to a human host.
Flu replies to Ebola: If that day were to come, you would probably be as virulent as I was.
AIDS responds to Ebola: Ebola brother, I look at the data in your autobiography, from 1976 to 2014, the number of people infected by each human outbreak has gradually increased, but the fatality rate has basically gradually decreased, does this mean that you are adapting to the human host?
Ebola Virus Responds to AIDS: Pretty much any virus and its host are a process of mutual adaptation, and my Ebola is the same as the human host.
Influenza responds to Ebola: If this trend continues, you will become more and more widespread in the human world, and the virulence will be relatively weakened, and you will be able to have the same level of virulence as me.
AIDS reverts to the flu: the same virulence as the flu brother, which is already very powerful.
Ebola virus returns to influenza: Sometimes, virulence is inversely proportional to transmissibility, and too virulence hinders the ability to spread among people, so let my devilish virulence and ghostly transmissibility become a legend in our virus world.