... the human race extremely close to contact with the deadly virus hiding deep within. Groups have slashed and burned away at a environment that has basically been undisturbed and isolated from the influences of mankind for thousands of years and now scientists believe that the emergence of the Ebola virus into the human population is directly related to the destruction of Africa's rainforests and in turn with the contact of man with the "reservoir species" of the virus. In order to prevent an explosion of the Ebola virus into humans, measures must be taken to ensure that exploration of the central African rainforests as well as other ecological and evolutionary practices are taken with greater consideration. The course of an Ebola virus infection is one that usually leads to hemorrhagic fever. The virus incubates in the host and continues to replicate for an average of six to ten days. The ...

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