Ebola in Nigeria: Answers to key questions you have

For decades, the global community, particularly the African continent, has been battling with diseases such as malaria, syphilis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, measles, whooping cough, diarrhea, pneumonia and HIV/AIDS.
While nations and international health organisations continue to formulate ways – both scientific and unorthodox – to contain these diseases, a (relatively) new infection has crept in. It is known as Ebola.
What is Ebola?
Ebola virus (formerly labelled Zaire ebolavirus, or EBOV) is a virological taxon species included in the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, members are called Filovirus. It is the most dangerous of the six species of Ebola viruses of the Ebolavirus genus which are the causative agents of the disease.