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Human modernization leads to outbreaks of the Ebola virus.
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Human Modernization Leads To Outbreaks Of The Ebola Virus Ebola is one of the most lethal viruses known to man. The virus is incredibly contagious and spreads like a wildfire among those it infects, dissolving its victims. If Ebola infiltrated into the human population it would have the power to greatly reduce the numbers of the human species by more than eighty percent. Ebola outbreaks appeared periodically in the past only to quickly reside and then reemerge again. The virus is believed to have its origins deep inside the jungles of central Africa inside the bodies of a "reservoir species," an organism that has coevolved with the Ebola virus and serves as a means of transport for the virus to its next victims (Preston, 1994). It is believed that human contact with these "reservoir species" is the cause for the outbreaks of the virus into the human species. Human...
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