From: "Ebola Virus Support Group" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ebolavirus_s@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:47:24 +0100
Subject: SAVE THE WORLD!!!

Ebola virus disease (EVD) or Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) is the human disease caused by ebola viruses. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus with a fever, throat and muscle pains, and headaches. The disease is first acquired by a population when a person comes into contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal such as a monkey or fruit bat. To make the diagnosis, typically other diseases with similar symptoms such as malaria, cholera and other viral hemorrhagic fever are excluded. The blood may then be tested for either antibodies to the virus, the viral DNA, or the virus itself to confirm the diagnosis.
Prevention involves decreasing the spread of the disease from infected monkeys and pigs to humans. This may be done by checking these animals for infection and killing and properly disposing of the bodies if the disease is discovered. The disease has a high death rate: often between 50% and 90%. It typically occurs in outbreaks in tropical regions of Sub-Saharan Africa. The largest outbreak as of 2014 is the ongoing 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, which is affecting Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. There is no specific treatment for the virus with efforts to help people including giving the person either oral rehydration therapy or intravenous fluids. Death toll has significantly doubled in recent times and the people who have been able to survive it suffer from stigmatization.
The disease is spreading really fast, moving across borders and killing more people than the media can record. We have been able to reach out to the people of this region and improvise ways at which this disease can be prevented, sustained and gradually eradicated. We have done our best and we will keep working hard but some factors and lack of resources seems to hold us back, e.g. government policies, lack of healthcare facilities and finance. We seek for your support in whatever way you can so we can put an end to the menace of ebola virus. This is a fight for the existence of humanity.
Your contribution will mean a lot to the world.
Thanks