date:Jul 24, 2012
acute viral illness, endemic in West Africa, infects 100,000 to 300,000 a year, causing 5,000 deaths. Reservoir or host for virus is a small rodent.
- Rotavirus: A double-stranded RNA virus, it is he most common cause of severe diarrhea among infants and children. Controlled in U.S. by vaccine, there are at least 450,000 cases annually worldwide.
- Ebola: A virus causing Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and