Is EBOLA a virus?

[healthinfo6]

Maybe our African centric readers can comment on what EBOLA can do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease

[Irene de Villiers]

Not sure what you are asking, what it is you want to know?

Yes Ebola is a virus - actually five separate but similar viruses.

I'd not use Wikipedia as a valid source for anything (and especially not homeopathy!!!) - the National Library of Medicine abstracts for all research worldwide are more reliable. The latest review of Ebola type viruses (there is a family of them) is the review abstracted below from last month:

As to "what ebola can do", it is a hemorrhagic fever, with mortality reported up to 90%.
The natural defense against Ebola involves interferons but the signals to use interferons are blocked by the EBola virus. Ebola virus also has a mechanism (using a protein called VP35) to hide its double-stranded RNA from being detected by the cell in which it is replicating. The disease causes fever, hemorrhagic symptoms and multiple organ failure. Any of the five versions can tend to have an outbreak unpredictably, except it is usually in already compromised individuals.

Abstract
Ebola viruses (EBOV; genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae) cause often fatal, hemorrhagic fever in several species of simian primates including human. While fruit bats are considered a natural reservoir, the involvement of other species in the EBOV transmission cycle is unclear, especially for domesticated animals. Dogs and pigs are so far the only domestic animals identified as species that can be infected with EBOV. In 2009 Reston-EBOV was the first EBOV reported to infect swine with indicated transmission to humans; and a survey in Gabon found over 30% seroprevalence for EBOV in dogs during the Ebola outbreak in 2001-2002. While infections in dogs appear to be asymptomatic, pigs experimentally infected with EBOV can develop clinical disease, depending on the virus species and possibly the age of the infected animals. In the experimental settings, pigs can transmit Zaire-Ebola virus to naive pigs and macaques; however, their role during Ebola outbreaks in Africa needs to be clarified. Attempts at virus and antibody detection require as a prerequisite validation of viral RNA and antibody detection methods especially for pigs, as well as the development of a sampling strategy. Significant issues about disease development remain to be resolved for EBOV. Evaluation of current human vaccine candidates or development of veterinary vaccines de novo for EBOV might need to be considered, especially if pigs or dogs are implicated in the transmission of an African species of EBOV to humans. Copyright © 2013 by the International Alliance for Biological Standardization (IABS), Carouge-Geneva (Switzerland).

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[Ellen Madono]

Thank-you Irene. We are so lucky to have you active on the list.

When they say "validation of an RNA" is needed, are they trying to find a way to test dogs and pigs as carriers (vectors). Does that RNA step make it more difficult to make a test to identify vectors?

Will this possibly vaccine be another way to mess up our immune system?

Best,
Ellen Madono

[Irene de Villiers]

Thank you
Yes, and they would want a RNA test because an antibody test only shows exposure to the virus, not presence of the virus.
An RNA test looks for actual virus.
(Antibody tests look for a response to virus, in other words looks for antibodies but does not look for actualo virus.)
They can't verify vectors till they have a valid way of detecting virus - such as RNA test for the Ebola.
Identifying vectors is a long way from getting a vaccine but I would not trust ANY vaccine.
I'd rather use an Ebola nosode plus simillimum......

..........Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Sheri Nakken]

and have had to look up where this is from below
here is the link http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/ ... 00811.html
always nice to credit the writer

At 12:22 AM 6/7/2013, you wrote:
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